I tracked down transcripts for "The Power of Nightmares," broadcast last month on The Beeb. I don't believe this is a duplicate diary, but this series was so damned good, I just have to tell everyone.
This is a series of films about how and why [the] fantasy [of an international terrorist threat] was created, and who it benefits. At the heart of the story are two groups: the American neoconservatives, and the radical Islamists. Both were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure.
Very well done, it looks at the use of fear to push idealogical changes to society. The juxtaposition of the rise of these opposing views, for the same reasons (the defeat of liberalism) is an interesting perspective. It's a shame it wasn't shown in the States before the election.
Not that it would have mattered.
Here's the links