{"id":3049,"date":"2011-09-11T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2011-09-14T01:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T09:34:50","slug":"911-ten-year-anniversary-and-the-power-of-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3049\/911-ten-year-anniversary-and-the-power-of-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Ten-Year Anniversary and The Power of Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/C075AE14A059B06E?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>Highly recommended: The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis.<\/br><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/rstone\/\">Ralph. E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 11, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Prior to 9\/11, the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organized force of destruction, specifically in the form of\u00a0<a title=\"Al-Qaeda\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al-Qaeda\" target=\"_blank\">al-Qaeda<\/a>, was a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries &#8211; particularly by American neo-conservatives in the Bush inner circle &#8211; in an\u00a0<a title=\"Noble lie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noble_lie\" target=\"_blank\">attempt to unite and inspire their people<\/a>\u00a0following the failure of earlier, more\u00a0<a title=\"Utopia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utopia\" target=\"_blank\">utopian<\/a>\u00a0ideologies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->9\/11 put al-Qaeda on the map and our budget-busting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq gave al-Qaeda legitimacy while serving as an excellent recruiting tool. \u00a0In the meantime, under constant fear mongering, Americans gave up their privacy and rights in the name of security. \u00a0America\u2019s \u201cmission accomplished\u201d created an unstable, divided, economically devastated nation. \u00a0Closure for me would begin with a public apology from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice. \u00a0Instead, we will get more self-serving books like Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;In My Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are we winning this so called war on terrorism?<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago, I saw and highly recommend a three-part documentary entitled &#8220;The Power of Nightmares,&#8221; subtitled\u00a0&#8220;The Rise of the Politics of Fear,&#8221; a\u00a0<a title=\"BBC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Documentary film\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Documentary_film\" target=\"_blank\">documentary film<\/a>\u00a0series, written and produced by\u00a0<a title=\"Adam Curtis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Curtis\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Curtis<\/a>.\u00a0 The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the\u00a0<a title=\"2005 Cannes Film Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2005_Cannes_Film_Festival\" target=\"_blank\">2005 Cannes Film Festival<\/a>.\u00a0 Curtis&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to 9\/11, the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organized force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, was a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries &#8211; particularly by American neo-conservatives in the Bush inner circle &#8211; in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>9\/11 Ten-Year Anniversary and The Power of Nightmares - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3049\/911-ten-year-anniversary-and-the-power-of-nightmares\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"9\/11 Ten-Year Anniversary and The Power of Nightmares - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prior to 9\/11, the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organized force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, was a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries - particularly by American neo-conservatives in the Bush inner circle - in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3049\/911-ten-year-anniversary-and-the-power-of-nightmares\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fogcityjournal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-11T18:36:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-09-14T09:34:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ralph E. 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