In the classic Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” (1960) the neighbors on “Maple Street U.S.A.,” in an idyllic American town, suddenly encounter unexplainable events and conclude they are the result of an alien invasion. (In a later remake, “The Monsters are on Maple Street,” (2003) they suspect there has been a terrorist attack.) In the end, the neighbors turn on each other and innocent blood is shed. Even though they weren’t exactly wrong about the aliens/terrorists, the real damage came from within. These days, every headline serves to vindicate our beliefs, or we bend the facts to fit our world view.