Power of Nightmare

[Mike Weaver]

Talking about history and fiction have any of you non UK bods caught the 
word on the new BBC2 series, The Power of Nightmare.

  "...central idea - that politicians no longer exist by promising us 
dreams, they now promise to protect us from nightmares, nightmares that 
largely don't exist. And the incredible parallels Curtis demonstrates 
between US neocons and radical Islamists, how they're both fighting the 
same battle to prevent their societies sliding towards moral decay..."
There's an article at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1327786,00.html
and reviews at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,1331957,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,,1337807,00.html



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