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Post by jonnygemini on Jul 20, 2005 22:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by Os3y3ris on Jul 23, 2005 14:57:07 GMT -5
Whats it about?
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Post by jonnygemini on Jul 25, 2005 8:34:00 GMT -5
How the Straussian/NeoCons first came out of a classroom at Univ of Chicago to manufacture the threats they used to rise to power in the 70s & again today In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. These two groups have changed the world but not in the way either intended. Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful Together they created today's nightmare vision of an organised terror network. A fantasy that politicians then found restored their power and authority in a disillusioned age. Those with the darkest fears became the most powerful. The rise of the politics of fear begins in 1949 with two men whose radical ideas would inspire the attack of 9/11 and influence the neo-conservative movement that dominates Washington. Both these men believed that modern liberal freedoms were eroding the bonds that held society together. The two movements they inspired set out, in their different ways, to rescue their societies from this decay. But in an age of growing disillusion with politics, the neo-conservatives turned to fear in order to pursue their vision. They would create a hidden network of evil run by the Soviet Union that only they could see. The Islamists were faced by the refusal of the masses to follow their dream and began to turn to terror to force the people to "see the truth"'. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4202741.stm |
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Post by Os3y3ris on Jul 25, 2005 20:14:27 GMT -5
Interesting. Ill check it out.
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