How Does a Democracy Decide to Wage War?

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Airdate: Friday, December 7, 2007, at 8:30 p.m. EST on PBS.
(Check out the complete NOW report, free and available for viewing at http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/349/index.html.)

How does a democracy decide to wage war? This time on NOW.

At 8:30 p.m. on Friday, December 7 - the very day Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese warplanes 66 years ago - David Brancaccio interviews filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and the Rev. James Forbes Jr. about Burns' and Novick's epic World War II documentary "The War." Looking to the past as a mirror to the present, the four discuss how the waging of war intersects with our notion of democracy.

"It's incumbent upon a democratic society to evaluate what the arithmetic is - the cost of war," Burns tells the group.

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See the full NOW program at: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/349/index.html.

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