Watching "The Power of Nightmares" is like taking the Red Pill in the movie The Matrix.

'Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power' Hartmann, Thom.
(A review of The Power of Nightmares, a BBC documentary)

[Update - I'm still on the trail of the AVIs, but mp3s of the program can be found here.]

"The Soviet Union has been busy. They’ve been busy in terms of their level of effort; they’ve been busy in terms of the actual weapons they ’ve been producing; they’ve been busy in terms of expanding production rates; they’ve been busy in terms of expanding their institutional capability to produce additional weapons at additional rates; they’ve been busy in terms of expanding their capability to increasingly improve the sophistication of those weapons. Year after year after year, they’ve been demonstrating that they have steadiness of purpose. They’re purposeful about what they’re doing."
Donald Rumsfeld

(The CIA strongly disagreed at the time, calling Rumsfeld's position a "complete fiction" and pointing out that the Soviet Union was disintegrating from within, could barely afford to feed their own people, and would collapse within a decade or two if simply left alone.)
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Watching "The Power of Nightmares" is like taking the Red Pill in the movie The Matrix.
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'nuff said!!