May I recommend: The Power of Nightmares (3 video's)

If you have one hour worth of motivation to understand the present state of our world - politically speaking - then please take a look at this first part of a BBC series produced in 2005 ... That seems old, but many (like me) may have missed it ... and it still is so very hard-core relevant to to the present that it should be shown on TV every day and at school at least once every year ... The major players are Leo Strauss and Sayyid Quto, Donald Rumsfeld, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bush senior and Osama bin Laden, Nasser, Bush, Nixon, Gorbachev, Kissinger, Wolfowitz, Clinton, Cheney ... with many other well known names in minor roles. Click here of the first installment of three ... It's on Google Video's, and linked there to parts two and three. As an afterthought, I hope you have three hours ... because it is riveting ...