A new movie debuted on January 10th entitled "Why We Fight." It appears to be a very good look at how US military power has increased exponentially and how that affects every facet of our lives and how over the last 45 years the Military Industrial Complex has grown out of proportion, right Duke? You can read more about it at
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/...
The New York Social Diary is a great look at life in NYC among the jet set and movers and shakers with money. It covers events in the Big Apple, mostly fund raisers. You will see very well written copy, of a gossipy nature, and great photographs. There are also photograhps of those people who attend all these parties and in some way it can be used to show why there is a reason and a need for the Federal Estate Tax, even though lots of these people do very good things.
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Back to the Film!
So. The film. "Why We Fight" is about that. Why we fight. So it's about why we are in Iraq and why we fight in Iraq. And why we've fought anywhere else since the end of the Second World War. But it's also about something else. There's Dwight D. Eisenhower up there on the screen, black-and-white, giving his farewell address in 1961 after 8 years as President of the United States. It turned out to be the most famous and historical of Eisenhower's speeches. It was the speech in which he warned the American people about the dangers of the encroaching Military-Industrial Complex. It was a term he invented for that speech. He invented it himself. The original term was to be Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex, but he pulled his punch before delivery and deleted the word "Congressional."
David Patrick Columbia continues:
The film will get to you because it contains something you need to know whether you want to or not. None of us is invulnerable to its message. It's about us and our survival. It draws you in and takes you on that Stealth ride over Baghdad with the pilots' recollection. It takes you on Officer Wilton Sekzer's odyssey to somehow see that his son's death on 9/11 was not in vain. And it breaks down and analyzes where we are and how we got here and where it's taking us.
When the film was over I could only wonder how we, the American people will be set free from this web that was created long ago and grown so immense that we are all now a part of it. Eugene Jarecki, however, despite the bold harshness of his message, is an optimist. History, he pointed out, has always had periods of darkness and from those periods, periods of light emerge. We, the People ... those words of our Founding Fathers' document, remain the key in Eugene Jarecki's informed, knowledgeable and brilliant opinion.
I have not seen the movie yet but I will try to see it on Friday. For those of you who have seen it, let's hear what you think.