exzellente Filmdoku (90 min) über die Mechanismen in der USA, wie die heutige Waffen-Industrie, das politische System, die Militärverwaltung und die Think Tanks miteinander verzahnt sind, nicht nur seitens des Personals, und wie die Zahnräder ineinanergreifen. Der Film greift nicht umsonst den „ersten“ Why we Fight-Film auf, der vor dem zweiten Weltkrieg gedreht wurde, um die US Bevölkerung zu überzeugen, in den Krieg zu ziehen. Der „neue“ Why we fight ist jedoch ein Art von Anti-Kriegsbericht. Und hinterfragt die aggressive Haltung der USA, die mE seit dem Beginn des ersten Weltkriegs andauert, als die USA zur Weltmacht aufgestiegen waren.
BBC:
Why We Fight is the title of a series of propaganda films that Frank Capra began making in 1942, with the aim of encouraging the American war effort against Nazism. Director Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) has used the films as a commentary on the contemporary obsession of the American elite with military power. He also harks back to a speech by President Eisenhower, who, just before he left office, referred to the „military-industrial complex“. [https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/audio/eisenhower.mp3] Eisenhower was worried that too much intelligence, and too much business acumen in America, had become focussed on the production of unnecessary weapons systems. Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki’s shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
Wikipedia zur Why we Fight / 2005 Doku:
Why We Fight is a documentary film directed by Eugene Jarecki that won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. The documentary was first released on January 17, 2005, exactly 45 years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address. It received a limited theatrical release on January 20, 2006. The documentary is named after the World War II-era propaganda newsreels titled „Why We Fight,“ which had been commissioned by the United States.The film describes the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex while concentrating on wars led by the United States of the last fifty years and in particular on the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. It includes interviews with John McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, Gore Vidal and Joseph Cirincione. The film also incorporates the stories of a Vietnam War veteran whose son died in the September 11, 2001 attacks and then had his son’s name written on a bomb dropped on Iraq, a 23-year old New York man who enlists in the United States Army citing his financial troubles after his only family member passed away, and a former Vietnamese refugee who now develops explosives for the American military.
Lohnen sich die 90 Minuten? Hm, schwierig. „Lohnen“ würde es sich, wenn die eigenen Erwartungen erfüllt wurden. Lohnen würde es sich, wenn man Spaß gehabt hat. Nein, gelohnt hat es sich nicht in dieser Hinsicht, nicht für mich. Für mich persönlich ist es im Grunde ein trauriger Film. Traurig macht mich dieses logische Planen, in Gang setzen und Umsetzen, wie man am schnellsten seine Interessen letzten Endes auf Kosten von Menschenleben umsetzt. Und keinen interessiert es. Nicht mich. Weil es irgendwie Alltag ist.
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