The Power of Nightmares

Yeah, I've seen it. It's okayish, but failed to convince me. I can reccomend watching it, though.
 
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Elind said:
I find it about as fascinating, not being a registered conspiracy buff, as your sigs.
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And how fascinating do you find my sigs?
 
scribble said:
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

I don't knwo much about politics, but I find this pretty fascinating. Has anyone else seen it who cares to comment on its content?
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I haven't seen it yet, though I've heard a few things about it. Here's some recent criticism:
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2005/07/and-now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep.html

"Recalling the recent past inconveniently undermines the thesis that an "organised terrorist network is an illusion". It is data that would be swept out of sight without the vigilance of writers like Joscelyn. (And it didn't used to be hard, at least in the days before the Internet. One Soviet historian working in the days of Stalin complained of the difficulty of his task because "You never know what's going to happen yesterday".) It would then be harder to deny the existence to an international terrorist network with actual goals of its own, with a will to power of its own, acting in the world today. Then we might have to conclude that the skein running through today's headlines is terrorism; that it is warring on us and that we might have to return the favor.

Yet on one limited point the BBC's producers may be right. There probably isn't a single controlling terrorist network in the world today; but multiple ones each with their own specific goals who may maintain links with each other, just as the multiple totalitarian movements in the 1930s formed an axis whenever it suited them. But the multiplicity of diseases does not invalidate the notion of disease. Terrorism does not exist simply because the Google search engine lets us pull together disparate threads to conceive it. The mind assisted by instruments can discover terrifying phenomena invisible to the eye. Then horror may take on the aspect of nightmare, except that it is all too real."
 
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