Why We Fight

tech, took your advice from months ago, just got this from netflix.

extremely interesting, yet terribly sad take on what cause the US to engage in wars overseas. the reason we fight wars is simply because there are literally millions of americans who have jobs because we fight wars. the bombs, the guns, the tanks, the boots, the uniforms, the food, and on and on and on are all made by God-fearing, red-blooded voting Americans. no wars = no jobs for millions of people. sad but true.

Truman was right, and that film was pretty depressing.

Another depressing thought is that if the United States had NOT become the world leader in death and military domination, then somebody else would have. If our ideals have been so fully corrupted by the military-industrial complex, then how scandalous and evil would the world be if the dominant military-industrial complex on the planet were run by the Soviets? Or the Nazis? The Turks?

If we hadn't built that war machine then somebody else would have. If we hadn't allowed the war machine to completely dominate our entire economy, then some other country would have. We use our war machine too often, too clumsily, but if we didn't then somebody else would be clumsily using their war machine on US.

If we hadn't built that war machine then somebody else would have. If we hadn't allowed the war machine to completely dominate our entire economy, then some other country would have. We use our war machine too often, too clumsily, but if we didn't then somebody else would be clumsily using their war machine on US.

interesting point.

Truman was right, and that film was pretty depressing.

Another depressing thought is that if the United States had NOT become the world leader in death and military domination, then somebody else would have. If our ideals have been so fully corrupted by the military-industrial complex, then how scandalous and evil would the world be if the dominant military-industrial complex on the planet were run by the Soviets? Or the Nazis? The Turks?

If we hadn't built that war machine then somebody else would have. If we hadn't allowed the war machine to completely dominate our entire economy, then some other country would have. We use our war machine too often, too clumsily, but if we didn't then somebody else would be clumsily using their war machine on US.

wow. that is really great rhetoric ryan.

I have not seen this film but am sure to make it a point whilst im on vacation next week. In respect to what you have said I totally agree. The war machine HAD to be created and used at the time it was, since everyone with a brain knows that hitler and the nazis would have continued an imperialistic run on the world, which we all know would have been hell.

At this point we have become a nemesis to our own culture by using our power how we have recently. I mean hell i am as patriotic as the next, 9-11 happened, we went after the taliban, ok good. This whole trying to take over the middle east is bogus. Iraq may be better to some now, but at the end of the day those people are going to fight, radical islam is a beast we can not control. i just hope that some economical benefit will come from this one day so its not the biggest blunder in US history that it seems to be now.