Why We Fight

Published: July 21, 2007, 12:07 pm

Tags: politics, war, documentary, recommended, reviews

A powerful, award-winning exploration of the American involvement in Iraq by Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight (2005) applies inspiration from Frank Capra’s World War II motivational films and President Eisenhower’s farewell address that gave us the term military-industrial complex to explain where the thinking behind this adventure originated. Too frequently documentaries are bland melanges of talking heads, even when the subject matter is compelling an important. 100 straight minutes of talking about almost any subject can just turn into too much yada yada yada and dramatic yet empty images do little to correct things; repetitive shots gliding down overly similar stretches of whatever are just as snore-inducing. Jarecki avoids this by integrating clips from Eisenhower and other important historical figures. Mainly though, we see the rationale for the Iraq War through interviews with a few relevant, insightful folks: Karen Kwiatkowski: A career military officer who was

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