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To: epicure who wrote (127662)	7/26/2005 3:00:10 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

What did the program argue?

To: epicure who wrote (127662)	7/26/2005 3:06:33 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

"Spin comes from both sides of the political spectrum" What does this statement have to do with what the man wrote? How would you summarize the "Power of Nightmares?" Much of the recent UK-based commentary I have read, both left and right, specifically mentions that program as having had its foundation blown out from under it by recent events.

To: epicure who wrote (127662)	7/26/2005 3:13:11 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

From the July 25 issue of the New Yorker magazine: One early casualty, for instance, was “The Power of Nightmares,” an influential three-part BBC series that argued that Al Qaeda does not exist, except as a kind of collective hallucination on the part of American neoconservatives. This hypothesis, and, with it, the theory that the terrorist threat was manufactured or hyped, had become extremely powerful on the respectable left. To be fair, the show’s producers never argued that there were no Islamist terrorists—their argument was, instead, that there was no coördinated network of terrorists run by an old Man of the Mountain in hiding. But the popular, anti-Blair, dinner-table view had long ago become that the terrorist threat was exaggerated, or that it wasn’t immediate. That view was destroyed in a morning.