Frontline : The War Behind Closed Doors (2003)
Directed by Michael Kirk
Genres - News [TV] |
Sub-Genres - Politics & Government, Military & War, Biography |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
"The War Behind Closed Doors" explores the 10-year gestation of what producer Michael Kirk calls the Bush administration's "doctrine of preemption" in foreign policy, focusing on the officials most significantly associated with it: Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and their top aides, I. Lewis Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, respectively. The policy in a nutshell is that "the U.S. has a responsibility to dominate the world's hot spots," says Kirk, and that "Iraq is a demonstration project" of it. Interviewees include Weekly Standard editor William Kristol; Pentagon adviser Richard Perle; and Kenneth Pollack, a Clinton-administration national-security adviser and the author of "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq." Will Lyman narrates.
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aftermath, behind-the-scenes, chaos, dictator, foreign-policy, Iraq, Middle-East, political-advisor, President, regime, Republican-Party, September 11th, speech, strategy, war, war-on-terrorism, weapons-of-mass-destruction
