Why We Fight

It Is Nowhere Written That The American Empire Goes On Forever

1/20/20051h 38min7.5/10(125 TMDB votes)

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Directed by Eugene Jarecki

Plot

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

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Cast

Chalmers Johnson

Self - CIA, 1967-1973

Joseph Cirincione

Self - Carnegie Endowment for Peace

Gore Vidal

Self - Author, "Imperial America"

Charles Lewis

Self - Center for Public Integrity

Richard Perle

Self - Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Defense

William Kristol

Self - Project for the New American Century

John McCain

Self - Senator (R/AZ)

Ken Adelman

Self

John Ashcroft

Self (archive footage)

Osama bin Laden

Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

Robert Byrd

Self (archive footage)

Frank Capra

Self (archive footage)

Dick Cheney

Self (archive footage)