From today's Houston Chronic: The director on his conclusion after making the film: "We fight because it's lucrative, thanks to collusion among the defense industry, Congress, the Pentagon, think tanks and media."
On Michael Moore: "[He] inspires young people to be engaged in the politics of our time. And that is a tremendously valuable contribution." On his politics: "I'm a radical centrist." Whatever that is.
Yep, LJ, sounds like a movie for you.
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At least Jarecki's tone seems less shrill. Bet he sits next to Jimmy summer '08.
I've never quite figured out why the left, so dismissive of DDE as a sort of dullard do nothing president who only played golf while the country ran itself, gives so much credence to the "military industrial complex."
While I certainly wouldn't support a war to make stockholders wealthy, I am grateful for the MIC. We can't defend ourselves and attempt to spread democracy (in a spectacular realization of Wilsonian vision) OR, if one is inclined to see a difference, nation build/colonize/build an empire/remedy decades of failed realpolitik policy without the MIC.
And, the I in the MIC goes not only unheralded, but is demonized...not even getting the "I support the troops but not the war."
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