Why Do They Hate Us?
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Heard about this one on a short segment on NPR where Christopher Guest (of all people) suggest DVD rentals, and this was one of his choices. I noticed it was running on our local cable's 'on demand' service, so took a look at it last night (and then restarted it again from the beginning so my wife could watch the whole thing too, when she wandered into the room - mostly because the opening scenes of the 'airplane graveyard' we had actually visited in Tucson recently). Fascinating documentary, that seems to take a very hard cold look at the double dealings and backroom motivations behind why we have managed to stay constantly at war with someone or other since the end of World War Two. Frightening, sobering, and depressing look at how the military industrial complex has so completely and neatly infiltrated the workings of our country to the point where I don't think we could ever stop it if we wanted to. Unfortunately the cable goofed up and we ended up missing the last 9 minutes of the movie, but we will be back to finish it at our earliest convenience. (Oddly and ironically enough, we got a call about halfway through the film from our teenaged son, who was over at a friends house, playing video games, --- 'Call To Duty', which gave us both a chill)