Word: paranoia
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...Speculation (or paranoia) abhors a vacuum, and into the hole where the pre- and post-9/11 films should be, a website like Loose Change creeps in, with its "evidence" of America's complicity in the WTC attacks. I'm not looking for Hollywood to take a conspiratorial view of 9/11. But if a filmmaker were to try, you'd think it would be Stone, whose 1991 JFK argued that virtually everyone killed Jack Kennedy. Instead, he makes an apolitical weepie that could as easily be about any tense rescue, of a mother in a burning building or a kitten...
...Hizballah on the same terrorism shelf as al-Qaeda is getting radical Sunnis to back radical Shi'ites in a way we'd have never imagined." By failing to make distinctions between groups--differentiations that are clear to people who actually live with these various conflicts--Bush feeds Muslim paranoia that his war on terrorism is just a cover for a war on Islam. Says Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. counterterrorism expert: "We created an artificial composite of enemies. The reality is that we can't address each of these terror enterprises with this simplistic approach...
Short answer: You can if you're Oliver Stone, with your filmmaking skills concentrated on World Trade Center and your sometimes loopy political opinions--not to mention paranoia--nowhere in evidence...
...doing the Macarena as I patted every possible place I could have put it. I was in the middle of Manhattan, of all places, without any money, credit cards, or I.D. and with no way to board my plane home some days later. As this dawned on, me paranoia set in. I retraced my steps. Eventually I calmed down, cancelled my credit cards, filed a police report, found friends to loan me money, and got my parents to overnight my passport. I kept telling myself that things weren’t that bad. But not even Monty Python could cheer...
...it’s even better when he sings, “Oh, keep your love away from me / Jesus, keep your hands where I can see,” a line as hilarious for its paranoia as anything else. Come on man, He was a Middle-Eastern Jew, not a Boston Catholic priest...