[Texgreen] "The Power of Nightmares", parts 1, 2 and 3

[Roger Baker]

Use this link to get to the series:

<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1002626006461047517&q=power 
+of+nightmares&hl=en>

This is a three part BBC series of one hour segments that you can  
watch on google video if you have a broadband connection. I highly  
recommend it; a must watch series in my opinion to understand current  
politics and the war. There are a hundred or more clips and  
interviews with officials in the series.

It is subtitled "The Rise of the Politics of Fear" and is basically  
about how the neo-conservatives grouped around the American Standard  
got power in the United States under Reagan to fight against the  
Soviet Union in Afghanistan, extending their power under Casey and  
the CIA, failed to discredit Clinton (until Monica), and then got  
control again under a weak president, GWBush.  And used their  
influence under Bush to create a new enemy to replace the Soviet  
Union as a way to defeat secular liberalism.

It has numerous clips of Bin Laden and Zawhari and explains their  
role in promoting Islamic fundamentalism, their failure to inspire  
Islamic revolutions in the Arab countries and their turn toward  
terrorist attacks in the West. And how Bush and Blair have used the  
9/11 attack to exaggerate and magnify the threats to create an  
atmosphere of domestic fear to subsequently justify the war on Iraq.

It ends a few years ago (2003-4?) but thoroughly debunks phony  
threats behind the war on terror like the existence of al Queda  
terror cells in the US and britain. A nuclear expert testifies that  
dirty bombs represent little real threat, etc.

I welcome other comments and second opinions. I think you'll like  
this series.

-- Roger