I saw "Why We Fight"

[Crowley]

Rented this and watched it last night... you can also see it on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYeuzG24mo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV6cSUyeNQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6mMFifMQY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBMu6gGdK8

Really excellent documentary... really scary outlook for the US...

[BlairH]

It's more than a tad misleading in places. The masses and masses of fighter aircraft you see at the beginning are not "new fighters, rolling off the production line", as the documentary makers might want you to think. (the idea that the arms industry is just providing us with an infinate amount of weaponry for their own economic good)

They are in fact a collection of obsolete aircraft (such as F4 Phantoms, etc), based in Tuscon Arizona for storage purposes, but since Tuscon has a very high concentration of old military aircraft, the documentary makers probably thought that it would be more "shocking" to show you row upon row of old fighter planes, rather than the increasingly shrinking number of new F22s (how many F22s will the US recieve again? Isn't it like less than half of the original order?)

[Crowley]

I don't think that showing obsolete aircraft is misleading when the film deals with foreign policy from Eisenhower until today.

I don't really think anything was particularly misleading in this film.