Getting embarrassing - Syria, the long haul

[Razer]

On 10/28/2015 08:19 PM, goran at gothic.com.au wrote:
> Blog by Adam Curtis, THE BABY AND THE BAATH WATER
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/d3921cac-2144-306a-9f6e-712c0c685010
>

Curtis is also responsible for "The Power Of Nightmares" BBC documentary.

His hypothesis is the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, and the Neocons all
have common roots in the lecture hall and philosophy of Leo Strauss.

> THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
>
> Three part series
> I: Baby It's Cold Outside
> II: The Phantom Victory
> III: The Shadows In The Cave
>
> Tuesday, 18 January, 2005 2320 GMT on BBC Two
>
> Available @Archive.org:
> https://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares-Episode1BabyItsColdOutside
>
> Should we be worried about the threat from organised terrorism or is
> it simply a phantom menace being used to stop society from falling apart?
>
> 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.
>
> At the heart of the story are two groups: the American
> neo-conservatives and the radical Islamists.
>
> 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.
>
> 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"'.
>
> The Power of Nightmares will be broadcast over three nights from
> Tuesday 18 to Thursday, 20 January, 2005 at 2320 GMT on BBC Two. The
> final part has been updated in the wake of the Law Lords ruling in
> December that detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial was
> illegal.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/3755686.stm




>
> On 29/10/2015 12:09, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> This is getting embarrassing for "the West" - the so called moral high
>> ground of the West, never existed. Even Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
>> bombed -after- Japan had surrendered, just that America insisted on
>> humiliation of unconditional surrender.
>>
>> http://russia-insider.com/en/documents-reveal-west-plotted-false-flag-justify-war-against-syria-1957/ri10799
>> "
>> In 1957, it was PG-13 “border clashes”. Now we have “government
>> chemical weapons attacks against orphans”
>> "
>>
>> I wonder where our CIA apologists are now ...
>> Z
>>
>>
>


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