Word: hysteria
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Sept. 11 undermined traditional antiwar tenets while offering little to take their place. Weeks after the tragic attacks, a previously unimaginable 69 percent of students said they would support military action against the perpetrators. Terrorist hysteria quieted many who, before Sept. 11, would have rejected a pre-emptive war in Iraq that was based largely on exaggerated and unsubstantiated evidence. Party affiliation provided little guidance, as many who did not vote for Bush supported the invasion and others who gave Bush their votes came to question their decision...
Lefkowitz and his classmates came to Cambridge as fears of communists at home and abroad were mounting toward hysteria...
That's about all there is to the plot of Marooned in Iraq. But this half-mad movie by Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses), entirely played by Kurdish actors unknown to most of us, is a marvel--an odyssey through chaos and hysteria that finally ends in redemptive, if provisional, peace...
...Justice Department believes that librarians are overreacting. "I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding and a sense of unjustified hysteria," says Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh, who helped craft the act. Dinh says authorities have always been able to obtain subpoenas to search library records. For instance, a federal grand jury authorized searches in the mid-1990s to learn who had checked out books mentioned in the Unabomber's manifesto. Those subpoenas, however, were issued after officials provided a reasonable suspicion that the books were related to a committed crime...
This point, though, is perhaps obvious to a fault. For in the days following the slew of incidents being reported, what began on campus as collective outrage quickly outran itself and sputtered into accusations of overworked hysteria and witch hunts targeting pro-war students. Somewhere, the issue most urgent and in plainest view—the breakdown of intellectual discourse at a university—got lost in the shuffle...