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🗓️ 19 September 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Why most Americans fear ISIS, politicians and pundits stoking terror panic on the US-Mexico border, and Nihilism: now and forever. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	So now here we are. We've got 70 to 80 percent who are saying, yes, we have to bomb ISIS. How did that happen?
0:06.1	Polls say that Americans overwhelmingly support another fight in the Middle East. Just a year ago, that was inconceivable. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:18.3	Meanwhile, talking heads on camera and in Congress stoke fears of an ISIS invasion from the South.
0:25.7	Reports suggest ISIS fighters may have formed a new terror cell somewhere along the Mexican border.
0:32.4	Consuming the daily news feed of chaos can engender feelings of what's it all for, right? I'll talk to Radio Lab
0:39.7	host Chad Obamrod about nihilism today and throughout time. There's a nounness to this particular
0:46.7	flavor of it because if you just turn on the news, you will see an endless stream of misery. It's
0:53.7	impossible to make sense of.
0:55.9	There's more coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:19.9	Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:23.1	On Thursday, amid the drumbeat in Washington for aggressive military action in Syria to fight
1:29.0	the group calling itself Islamic State came a video message from the extremist group itself delivered
1:36.4	through one of its captives.
1:37.8	After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why is it that our governments appear so keen
1:47.6	to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict? The video released online is titled,
1:54.1	Lend Me Your Ears, and the speaker is John Cantley, a British journalist kidnapped by ISIS militants
2:00.6	in Syria in November 2012. Cantley, a British journalist kidnapped by ISIS militants in Syria in November 2012.
2:04.1	Cantley is sitting behind a desk and wearing an orange jumpsuit. He speaks directly to the
2:09.1	camera and appears to be reading from a script. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking
2:14.6	he's only doing this because he's a prisoner. He's got a gun at his head
2:19.0	and he's being forced to do this, right? Well, it's true. I am a prisoner. That I cannot deny. But seeing as I've
2:28.8	been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of the Islamic State, I have nothing to lose.
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