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Kasz216 on 15 November 2010
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The Ghost of RubangB said:
Kasz216 said:
ameratsu said:

Power of Nightmares, The (2004) - 3 Part BBC Documentary about the use of fear in politics. The first part of this documentary is a must watch as it shows the links between the early neo-conservative movement in the US and the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. Available for free on Google Video.

I'm confused by "the power of Nightmares".

The early Neo-Conservative movement in the US started during the cold war... because of the USSR... and a certain branch of the democratic party splitting off and joining the republicans.

So I think the BBC is off on this one.

Yeah that's what the Power of Nightmares says.  I think ameratsu meant to say "similarities between" and not "links between."  It discusses how both movements came out of the Cold War, and they both claim to have defeated the Soviet Union, and they both use fear to try to control people.  It doesn't say that Wolfowitz planned 9/11 or anything crazy like that.

Makes more sense,

desription of it just confused me because a lot of people think Neo-Conservatives are a new thing.

When the reality is, they've been around forever, they were just irrelevent till 9/11 put them back on the big stage and back when they were relevent we were living in a state of perpetual nuclear armegeddon. (Or our parents in anycase.)

To a lot of people neo-conservatives are a new thing, but really they were just biding their time... on the fringe of the republican party... and somewhat in the middle of some of the democratic party.  (Look towards democrats that are social conservatives but fiscal liberals, they are out there but generally don't have a group like the bluedogs because most votes are financial.)