Eugene Jarecki - “Why We Fight” Filmmaker, Brown University
Eugene Jarecki, Visiting Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University - Aired 5/9/06 In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of “destroying from within that which you are trying to protect from without.” He was talking about a new development in American history, which he called “the military-industrial complex”. Ike himself was a five-star general, but as he left office he was extremely worried that the powerful interests of the war industry would destroy American democracy. Tonight on Not Your Classroom, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (who is a visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University) talks about Eisenhower’s warning, which is the focus of his recent film “Why We Fight”. “Why We Fight” won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. More about Jarecki here.
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