2004: The Power of Nightmares (BBC Two) suggested a parallel between the
rise of Islamism in the Arab world and Neoconservatism in the United States
in that both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw
people to support them. One hour video, very much worth the time watching
it.

http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives-admit-al-qaeda-is-a-complete-fabrication...

OR ... What IS vs What IF's

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Adam Curtis (born 1955) is a British television documentary maker who has
during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer,
director and narrator. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. He is
noted for making programmes which express a clear (and sometimes
controversial) opinion about their subject, and for narrating the programmes
himself.

The Observer adds "if there has been a theme in Curtis's work since, it has
been to look at how different elites have tried to impose an ideology on
their times, and the tragi-comic consequences of those attempts."

The Power of Nightmares : The Rise of the Politics of Fear
http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives-admit-al-qaeda-is-a-complete-fabrication...

INTRO:
In the past Politicians promised to create a better world. They had
different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from
the optimistic visions they offered their people.

Those dreams failed, and today people have lost faith in ideologies.
Increasingly politicians are seen simply as managers of public life.

But now they have discovered a new role that restores their power and
authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect
us, from nightmares.

They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see
and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international
terrorism. The powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries
across the world. A threat that needs to be fought by a War on Terror.

But much of this threat is a fantasy which has been exaggerated and
distorted by politicians. It's a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned
through governments around the world, the security services and the
international media.