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• [1] saf April 25, 2008 - 11:00AM

  After that last segment I'm more curious about a Global Food Crisis that doesn't exist...sorry couldn't resist

  
  
• [2] Richard Walker from San Francisco April 25, 2008 - 11:04AM

  More to the point, unpacking the history of Qutb and Strauss is important.

  
  
• [3] World's Toughest Milkman from the_C_train April 25, 2008 - 11:10AM

  Oh it's the bbc, it mushtbee true. I always trusht a UK accent.

  
  
• [4] KC from NYC April 25, 2008 - 11:11AM

  You can watch all of "Power of Nightmares" online. It's so fascinating.

  
  
• [5] hjs from 11211 April 25, 2008 - 11:12AM

  it's more like a franchise, i guess

  
  
• [6] Peter from Brooklyn April 25, 2008 - 11:13AM

  I think its likely that Al Qaeda does exist, but its irrelevant. Al-Qaeda is more like Al-Goldstein (like 1984 not the pornographer), used to get americans dander up and use fear to keep us in line.

  
  
• [7] KC from NYC April 25, 2008 - 11:25AM

  Yeah, the show portrays Al Qaeda and the Neoconservative movement as fantasies, but posits that they are, by virtue of that, possibly more dangerous than "real" organizations. They prey on much older fears, and expand as ideas; by definition, almost impossible to contain.

  Interestingly, in the doc's timeline, militant Islamic extremism (like Neoconservatism) was created in the American Midwest in the 1950s.

  Really, check it out.

  
  
• [8] Richard Walker from San Francisco April 25, 2008 - 12:40PM

  well put KC and peter, milkmen are all over the web, leaving their clever one-lime quips. if itsh from a milkmun, it musht be phunny.