Join ICPJ for a viewing and discussion of "Why We Fight," Tuesday, March 31 at 7:00

Join ICPJ for a screening of acclaimed documentary Why We Fight, which examines America’s policies regarding making war, most recently the Iraq war and what is termed “the Bush doctrine” that includes pre-emptive strikes. It also explores today’s U.S. military/industrial complex via interviews with individuals involved with it.

The film showing will begin at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31, followed by dessert and discussion. Location: Memorial Christian Church, 730 Tappan (corner of Hill and Tappan), Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Free and open to the public.

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WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders.  Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.

Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase “military industrial complex”), filmmaker Jarecki (THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century’s 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?

“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called WHY WE FIGHT that explored America’s reasons for entering the war,” Jarecki notes.  “Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing?  What is it doing to others?  And what is it doing to us?’”

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