Word: paranoia
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...activity will automatically be more difficult to accomplish after an advance warning has been given. So why would a terrorist want to give us advance warning? I am not convinced for a moment that these tapes are authentic. I believe they are designed to keep the flames of Western paranoia burning brightly, so that the U.S. juggernaut to destroy Iraq can be kept on schedule. Ken Bobrosky Istanbul...
...combination of gender disparities, a dysfunctional undergraduate relationship scene in certain departments and the paranoia associated with the enforcement of a no-relationship mandate all seem to eliminate the underlying sexual tensions among undergraduate teachers and students...
...bunkers of Baghdad might be a more fruitful place to start our search. For all his paranoia, Saddam cannot avoid cultivating military leaders. Furthermore, he can only keep his army in line by resorting to brutal purges. The senior officers now in command experienced the Gulf War and they know they are even weaker now. We can be confident that they are not terribly excited about getting themselves and their men slaughtered. A decade’s worth of testimony from Iraqi military defectors, including the army chief of staff at the time of the invasion of Kuwait, shows that...
...rationale and the ignored consequences. Doesn't anyone remember President Eisenhower's eloquent warning about the military-industrial complex and its potential for misplaced power? Doesn't anyone recall the lessons of history, about how countless nations have bankrupted themselves morally and financially through the same toxic blend of paranoia, patriotism and hubris peddled by the Bush Administration? Our biggest danger isn't from Saddam Hussein; it's from an Administration's obsession that is compounded by congressional acquiescence. Fred Drumlevitch Tucson, Ariz...
...Trevor Adams (Ben Foster) brings a bomb to high school. The weapon doesn't go off; it's a dummy. But when a drama teacher (Tom Cavanagh) casts Trevor in a play about a school shooting, the campus explodes into paranoia, pushing Trevor to the brink of real violence. Bang Bang is too speech-heavy, and for a movie about the danger of stereotypes, it's rife with them: meathead jocks, insensitive parents, earnest teachers. But Foster makes Trevor searingly real, a bright, eyes-averted loner who so badly wants you to think he doesn't care that you know...