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Article: Art notes: from Ike to cash.(Why We Fight, Beowulf and Grendel, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Jurassic 5, American V: A Hundred Highways)(Video recording review)
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- Catholic New Times
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- September 10, 2006
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Why We Fight. DVD. Directed by Eugene Jarecki, 2005.
"It's all about oil," some say. "We're at war on terrorism," say others. Some comments are more rare, "Arms companies are getting rich, and that's why the U.S. is in Iraq." Through these complex responses and more, Why We Fight goes on a journey and comes to a clear conclusion: the U.S. fights to take over the world; all these other reasons are just details.
It started at the end of WWII. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell presidential address, warned about the "military-industrial complex." After WWII the U.S. became the most powerful military in the world and thus it took on the duty ...