If you have yet to see Eugene Jarecki’s documentary film Why We Fight–you should certainly make a point of doing so.  I rented the DVD yesterday and was entirely floored by it.  It is a very powerful–albeit terrifying–account of what has happened to this country in the wake of our failing to heed Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warnings about the military-industrial complex.  The tagline to the film is the following warning: "It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever."  The sooner we realize this, the safer we will be.  Until then, our "leaders" will continue to bring us to the precipice of destruction.