Why we fight - Essay Example

Jarecki has repeatedly revealed through the opinion of people like Richard Perle, Advisor, US Department of Defense that it is common sense for America to go to war to create democratic change. Perle justifies that the war in Iraq was necessary to remove Saddam Hussein. Charles Lewis at the Centre for Public Integrity opines that it has been in the interest of all the Presidents of America to use military force and wage war to maintain freedom and common values in some other country. Though the Vietnam War was a failure, the American government was careful to gather the support of its people through the media.

This is evident from the various publications flashed in the documentary that envisage popular support from Americans through propaganda in the television. William Kristol, editor, The Weekly Standard stands for war while Gore Vidal stands strongly against war. Gore Vidal, author of Imperial America points out that the initiators of war live in the United States of Amnesia because they have not learnt lessons from previous experiences in Vietnam and other parts of the world but continue to wage war for no solid reason.

He questions the war loving America as ‘What are we doing’. Vidal then continues that even when Japan was willing to surrender, Truman was convinced 99.9 percent that America should drop atom bomb in Japan to scare Stalin and proclaim war on communism. Jarecki has given space for war lovers and war haters to speak out their opinion. But the director has taken a stand of his own to show the perils of the country on which the war is waged and ample space the viewer to think from all angles of the war.

The images definitely penetrate into the minds of the viewer with equal force as the bomb penetrates into the innocent people. Chalmer Johnson gives some facts about the brainwashing tactics of the American government where the secrets of war are kept away from the American public. He points out the urge of America