A lot of it has come as a direct result of the fearmongering, since day one, of bush and his cabinet. When the leader of a country assaults the citizens with dire predictions, day after day, and when the supposed repercussions effect the whole world, people tend to get edgy, tense, depressed, downright scared, etc.; they are being *programmed* by him and the media, to be this way. In other words, pretty much what PeterT said.

I do weary of there being so many threads about it all, though.

kat