Why We Fight Part 4 of 10

Why We Fight describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was told a lie, so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, reporter William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.

Why We Fight documents the consequences of said foreign policy with the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, and who then asked the military to write the name of his dead son on any bomb to be dropped in Iraq; and that of a twenty-three-year-old New Yorker who enlists in the United States Army because he is poor and in debt, his decision impelled by his mother's death; and a military explosives scientist who arrived to the U.S. as a refugee girl from Vietnam in 1975.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• America
• US
• Globalization
• Military Industrial Complex
• Military
• Super Power
• War
• Why We Fight
• CIA
• Vietnam
• Iraq

[OurFadedGarden]

I buy a new car when the cost of fixing it is more than the cost of a new one. Just saying....

[Gonko100]

@ARNAKLDO

lol...yeah man.

[Konicava]

@Gorilla196094 Poor little stupid person. You can't invade fucking Iraq, how could you eliminate all your enemies? Every person that backfatks your SHITTY FATASS SORRY EXCUSE FOR A COUNTRY? From your enemy in Brazil.

[hero1naka]

@Gorilla196094

We can barely run our own country effectively and efficiently. Why they hell would we want to run the whole world and take over conuntries that have problems that dwarf ours?!?!

[ARNAKLDO]

All i say is ALIENSSSS

[Tuathalful]

@Gorilla196094 LOL America is hanging by a string; on borrowed time. It's increasing reliance on military force & the propping up of its unsustainable & anti-democratic neo-liberal capitalism is a strong indicator of it's decline. You're right about one thing though; America is the most belligerent, violent imperialist force on Earth atm & if anyone's going to start another World War anytime soon it's likely to be the Americans using the war on terrorism, Iran and/or North Korea as a pretext.

[shgibby61981]

America may have the power but just like anything else use it or lose it. Americas power is diminished by the enemies within its own government.

[Gorilla196094]

The USA should destory and kill all of our enemies. If fact, we should destroy any country that sasses us or backtalks. We could run the entire planet, if we wanted to. Most Americans have no clue as to how truly powerful America is.

[freetubester]

MI6/CIA needed to create a new boogie man. The Six Days of the Condor was written prior to the 1975 Redford movie which exposed the hidden plans to create a war in the Mid East. After this Cheney incident Dan Rather was fed false information and forced to resign. Now, no one on TV tells the truth for fear of their job.

[jhunted7667]

DO AWAY WITH THE BELTWAY IN WASHINGTON