the power of nightmares
Thursday, July 27th, 2006jag är inte så överdrivet politisk av mig, men det finns en dokumentär i tre delar som jag tycker de flesta borde se, vilken handlar om det politiska klimatet idag efter elfte september och heter the power of nightmares.
en av huvudpoängerna i dokumentären är hur de slår hål på myten om hur al-qaeda ens existerar som organisation, vilket är rätt skrämmande med tanke på hur media kopplar alla jävlar med en bomb till den “organisationen”.
The U.S. war on Afghanistan was justified as the destruction of this supposed organization. Their principal ally was the Northern Alliance, a loose collection of warlords fighting the Taliban. To satisfy Americans, the Northern Alliance turned over, to the U.S., foreign fighters for the Taliban as members of al-Qaeda, but most of them had nothing to do with bin Laden. The Northern Alliance told the U.S. that bin Laden was hiding in Tora Bora, but the promised fortress was found not to exist; Arabs were sold to the U.S. as al-Qaeda “members.” “The terrible truth was that there was nothing there, because al-Qaeda as an organization did not exist” (Curtis).
citatet härstammar från en sammanfattning av argumenten i dokumentären.