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This is also shown in the documentary "Why We Fight". Very powerful.

• remarkEon 11y ago
  When I was a student (Cadet) at West Point the Social Sciences Department (colloquially known as "SOSH") sponsored a viewing of that film and invited the director, Eugene Jareki, to come and conduct an open forum discussion after the viewing. Probably one of the highlights of my time there. After the Q&A some of the cadets who were SOSH majors stayed to ask a few one-on-one questions and I got to ask him (and I'm paraphrasing here) whose responsibility it was to fix this obvious problem - a problem so obvious that the United States Military Academy's Social Sciences Department chose to show this film to a bunch of people about to fight these wars. (Granted, there is a statue of Ike that sits outside the Jefferson Hall Library[1]...so maybe there was some Old Grad hero worship going on.) His response was that he hadn't really considered who's responsibility it should be beyond the obvious (all of ours), and that he didn't mean to convey that responsibility on this generation of war fighters, but that he did have faith that younger people would be able to affect some change here. That was a number of years ago. I suppose he meant the long game of when the young people grow up. As an aside, the namesake of the documentary comes from the propaganda films made during WWII.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Monument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_Monument [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight