Word: mistrust
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...admonitory tale told one lie too many and was eaten alive. The irony of this denouement, of course, is that when the boy met his fate, he was, at last, hollering the truth. This story demonstrates the creation of what is sometimes, and euphemistically, called 'a climate of mistrust.' (Translation: Everybody's lying.)" Read more at timearchive.com...
...With deep political mistrust between Syria and the United States, the two countries are hardly ready-made partners in the war on terrorism. Yet by the end of 2002, Zammar was one of at least four prisoners jailed in the Palestine Branch cells in Damascus who had landed there as part of the CIA renditions, according to the book, which is being published by St. Martin's Press. It is widely believed that Zammar, who has never been charged with anything, is still being held without trial in Syria at an unknown location. He was last heard from...
...Bachelet administration has canvassed expert and citizen opinion in the course of recent efforts at education and welfare reform. Brunner says surveys show people are shedding their traditional submissive attitude toward authority and instead adopting a level of mistrust, which may actually help build a more democratic society...
...Iranians think all governments lie. Before the Islamic Revolution they considered the Shah a liar, just as they now consider the mullahs liars. That's why most people believe Voice of America news tells the truth, while state television dissimulates. This mistrust stems from a cultural predilection toward conspiracy theories, and the widely held conviction that reality is that which you cannot see. Relatives and family friends with advanced degrees from prestigious Western universities still believe that the British run Iran, that Freemasons run the West, that Jimmy Carter engineered the Islamic Revolution, and that the CIA masterminded Sept...
...bargaining chip short of war the U.S. has left. And still that may not be enough. "[The Iranians] would give up nuclear power if they truly believed the U.S. would accept Iran as it is," says a university professor in Tehran who asked not to be identified. "But the mistrust runs too deep for them to believe that is possible...