Open to the Oxy Community
Presented by the Politics Department as part of the weekly film series
for Politics 101
Why We Fight (99 min) describes the rise and maintenance of the United
States military-industrial complex and its more than 50-year
involvement with the wars led by the United States, including he 2003
invasion of Iraq. The film includes interviews with politician John
McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson,
military policy analyst Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator
William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, Charles Lewis (founder of the
Center for Public Integrity), public policy expert Joseph Cirincione,
and John Eisenhower, a military historian and son of President
Eisenhower. The film won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
