Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Why we fight? a documentary beats Fahrenheit 9/11



It is a documentary investigating why we fight wars. Given the time it's made, it naturally started with the war in Iraq and then went back to past wars we have been involved in the past a few decades. Of course, the main comparison is between Iraq and Vietnam. Once again, the American Military Industry Complex has been used to interpret the path that led us to all wars. No matter how much I resented the idea, I have to admit that the case this movie made is very convincing.

The best part (for me) is the movie follows the story of a father, retired NYPD officer Wilton Sekzer who lost his son in 9/11. The story went as far as his days in Vietnam, to his rage against the terrorists so he asked for putting his son's name on one of the bombs in Iraq, and to the disappointments for being cheated by the President (GW). His words were worth a whole a lot more than the scholars from both sides.

It ends with Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired Lieutenant Colonel of US military:
"I think we fight because basically not enough people are standing up saying, 'I'm not doing this anymore.'"

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