Desiring Machine

If you have any interest in understanding history of Neo Conservatism and Islamic Jihad you should check out this very excellent BBC produced documentary, The Power of Nightmares.

Very informative and a nice concise history for the those of us being born in the 70s and not necessarily aware of the groundwork for todays foreign policies.

A couple of take aways I get from this:

1.) How absolutely consistently wrong the NeoCons are in there assessment of foreign affairs. And in the face of lacking evidence they willfully fabricate it.

2.) Nixon was a liberal by today’s standards. Kissinger was a remarkable, albeit ruthless, realist. With a commitment to negotiation. Not unlike Clinton in many ways.

The real interesting political question in my mind is how things might have been different had there been no Watergate nor a Nixon resignation. What would have happend if we didn’t have a weak, inffectual leader in Gerald Ford who first let the Neo Cons in the door in the mid 1970’s.

At anyrate, this documentary is a must see if you want to understand the true threat that faces us in the present political climate as we remember those who tragically suffered on 9/11 and in the desert sands of Iraq for the last few years.