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...wrote that Congress was frustrated by Eisenhower??s polices, which stripped it of some power...
...believes that, regardless of the administration, the government’s focus on the Defense Department has been steadily increasing for decades. “This [“Why We Fight”] is not about one president or one party,” he says. President Eisenhower??s January 17, 1959 speech is his inspiration for “Why We Fight.” In his address, Eisenhower warned against a society too tilted toward war. Jarecki says he was awed by Eisenhower??s candidness: “Eisenhower told the American public...
Excerpts from President Eisenhower??s farewell address begin and punctuate the film, but one excerpt from that speech serves as the film’s leitmotif: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist...
Jarecki’s film endeavors to detail the manifold ways in which America has failed to heed President Eisenhower??s warning...
...Fight”—like Eisenhower??s farewell address—is a jeremiad warning of a future in which the institutions erected for our defense rule rather than serve our society. This Orwellian dystopia seems closer than ever to reality: in the film’s closing moments Jarecki captures Richard Perle, with an entourage of arms manufacturers in tow, strolling through the corridors of the Pentagon to finalize yet another weapons contract...