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Why We Fight

It Is Nowhere Written That The American Empire Goes On Forever

  • Movie
  • 2005
  • PG-13
  • 1h 38m

Directed by Eugene Jarecki

7.5

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7.5 out of 10 from 125 votes

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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 and crew

  • Chalmers JohnsonSelf - CIA, 1967-1973

  • Joseph CirincioneSelf - Carnegie Endowment for Peace

  • Gore Vidal

    Gore VidalSelf - Author, "Imperial America"

  • Charles LewisSelf - Center for Public Integrity

  • Richard Perle

    Richard PerleSelf - Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Defense

  • William Kristol

    William KristolSelf - Project for the New American Century

  • John McCain

    John McCainSelf - Senator (R/AZ)

  • Ken AdelmanSelf

  • John Ashcroft

    John AshcroftSelf (archive footage)

  • Osama bin Laden

    Osama bin LadenSelf (archive footage)

  • George W. Bush

    George W. BushSelf (archive footage)

  • George H. W. Bush

    George H. W. BushSelf (archive footage)

  • Robert Byrd

    Robert ByrdSelf (archive footage)

  • Frank Capra

    Frank CapraSelf (archive footage)

  • Dick Cheney

    Dick CheneySelf (archive footage)

  • Dennis Hastert

    Dennis HastertSelf (archive footage)

Director
Eugene Jarecki
Writer
Eugene Jarecki
Music
Robert Miller
Cinematography
Étienne Sauret, May Ying Welsh and Brett Wiley