Inspired by Dwight Eisenhowers legendary farewell speech
(in which he coined the phrase military industrial complex),
filmmaker Eugene Jarecki surveys the scorched landscape of a
half-centurys military adventures, asking how and telling why a nation
of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system
whose survival depends on a state of constant war.
The film moves beyond
the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper
questions of why - why does America fight? What are the forces
political, economic, ideological that drive us to fight against an
ever-changing enemy?
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