Fairly disappointing

Adam Curtis loves to use archive footage and he loves to create a story/picture from one moment in time that ultimately relates to another that might not have seemed connected, but actually it becomes apparent later that it is. I think that's what makes his documentaries interesting and thought provoking.

Even with power of nightmares, he makes some glaring errors and his complete denial of Al-Qaeda existing, is one. Now if he argued that they were used simply as the boogie men, fair enough, but he went as far as completely down playing them and making them almost none existing or not a threat at all, completely made up, which isn't true..

In this, Bitter Lake he's trying to explain how Wahhabism was allowed to flourish and in fact be encouraged for temporary gains or for private motives, instead of simply being educated away and that's why we have a islamist problem today. He uses Afghanistan as a reference point to where even the Americans indirectly ended up benefiting being part of the problem. Nor is the Russians free from any guilt, as with their harsh treatment of Afghanistan from the start just simply ended up making the Afghans go closer and relate to Wahhabism or more accurately allow Wahhabism to take advantage of that. For example, the Russians may have had sort of what they assumed was good intentions, but because in 80's nobody actually understood what the blow back would be actually far worst than if they did nothing.

I think each video has a meaning, just it may not seem directly relevant to the subject, but in fact there's two subjects playing out, Saudi Arabia / Wahhabism and then there's Afghanistan / Russia & US involvements.