No viewings scheduled in NY or CA. I didn't check other locations. Where will it be possible to see this film?

Afew years ago I read somewhere that Eisenhower's aides persuaded him to delete a third entity from his "military-industrial complex" warning; it was "congressional." I have never doubted that report. In fact, the warning is incomplete without the word. Congress is inextrictably entwined with the other two. It should be a warning against the "military-industrial-congressional complex." That has a resoundingly accurate ring to it, no?

You can download Why we fight from here: http://oldamericancentury.org/why_we_fight.ram

Anyone interested in Why We Fight and the issues it raises should read Chalmers Johnson's eye-opening and very sobering The Sorrows of Empire. I interviewed him for my public radio book show here in mid-Michigan and until I read his book I had no idea of the enormous (and often secretive) range of American bases around the world; how we never give up a base once we build it; and the ways in which we had become a permanent military state which was unstoppable, but was also becoming hollow at the core. I think Johson was talking about the bases we were building in Iraq well before they were (minimally) discussed in the MSM and he still has said a lot more about our power grab in Central Asia than most newspapers. I'd recently read Rubicon by Tom Holland describing Rome's slide into Empire and the two books made for a terrific juxtaposition. Johnson is also the very prescient author of Blowback, a study of US foreign policy mistakes wreaking havoc years later.

I can assure all of you that it won't be difficult to see "Why We Fight," wherever you live. It's being distributed by Sony Classics, which may be an indication of how mainstream this kind of discussion has become. I was incorrect in stating that it will open "nationwide" on Friday (Jan. 20), but it will definitely open that day in New York and L.A., with a national rollout scheduled for Feb. 10. I'll correct the story accordingly.

It may indeed be possible to download the film, but then again, it's also possible to download "Batman Begins" or "King Kong." That doesn't make it legal or (at least in this case) defensible.

I'm surprised Mr. O'Hehir says he had not seen Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex" speech prior to "Why We Fight." Wasn't Eisenhower's speech the preface for Oliver Stone's "JFK"?

For that matter, isn't the MIC and its origins part of most introductory political science courses, usually accompanying C. Wright Mills notion of the "power elite"?