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The Power of Nightmares - Adam Curtis
This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure...
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contains both pro and con, read both sides. and dig deeper
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_196286.html
http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/principlesandisrael.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1014711/posts
http://pnac.info/
http://ivorypower.com/blog/?p=4301
http://ivorypower.com/blog/?p=494
http://oldamericancentury.org
It praises Kissingerian Realism
But, it's a good movie no less, comparing neocons to Islamists.
Do read also Dr. Paul's "Neoconned"
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr071003.htm
It sounds like straight from JewWatch.com, IHR.org and other anti-Semitic websites, almost as if he didn't do his fact checking.
Borisimo