Belmont Club examines an article in the Guardian on "The Power of Nightmares". It makes the case that terrorism doesn't really exist – the 9/11 attack was a one-off, and not related to other incidents.
Wretchard has some problems with the analysis carried out by the article's author, Adam Curtis:
The most interesting aspect of Curtis' argument is the narrowness of its cast. By limiting his set of terrorist incidents to the developed world, and to Europe in particular, he arrives at the conclusion that terrorism does not exist. He looks around his world and asks, 'where is it?'. Kashmir, Algeria, Saddamite Iraq, Sudan, the Balkans, Indonesia, Timor and the Philippines -- to name a few places -- are ommitted from his account. The wonder is not that he omitted them; the astounding thing would have been if he had included it. The Left has displayed a magnificent indifference to death in the Third World and only slightly more sensitivity to deaths in the Balkans.
The left doesn't care about people dying in the third world, except when it can be blamed on the USA, and especially on Republicans.
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