Greg said:prehaps i'm being hyperbolic, but this is the best television I have seen all year.
Greg said:is there a DVD release of this fantastic series planned?
oliver craner said:This programme had great footage, but was just plain wrong.
Totally overestimated the neoconservatives and totally underestimated the global jihadi/Islamist/Arab nationalist network. Well of course it's not simply al-Qaeda; yes Burke was right, and misrepresented.
Here's a small example for you to check out in Google or something: the links between Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed in Iraq and the Syrian Ba'athists. And hey, why not Syria and Hezbollah while we're at it. Why not Iran and Hezbollah. Uh, why not Iran and al-Sadr. Um, why not Iran and Saudi Arabia and Syria and Hamas.
Oh yeah, because it's all a hoax devised by Osama bin Laden and Paul Wolfowitz. Sorry, I think I was just fucking forgetting myself there.
oliver craner said:I don't know Greg, it doesn't make sense.
Curtis wasn't disputing the rider reach of Islamic radicalism and yet he was disputing the "myth" of al-Qaida?
But he was using this supposed myth to undermine the very basis of the War on Terror.
Therefore ignoring all links and alliances between various jihadi/Islamist groups and state and private sponsors; in fact his tactic in denying the validity of the war rested on ignoring this extensive, and real, network. (Which doesn't reduce to Islam <em>necessarily</em>, certainly not to all practising Muslims (thank you very much, Luke).)
It was fundametally wrong: as skewed as Moore and Fox.
Therefore ignoring all links and alliances between various jihadi/Islamist groups and state and private sponsors; in fact his tactic in denying the validity of the war rested on ignoring this extensive, and real, network.
oliver craner said:If, however, you think this comparison somehow contradicts the transnational, cynical, promiscuous nature of terrorism I'd remind you of IRA links to organised crime and the IRA dudes arrested in Columbia a few years ago giving training tips to FARC geurillas.