Screenwriter and novelist Andrew Klavan writes a remarkable column in the Los Angeles Times explaining that the actual fact of the war on terror is simply too frightening for Hollywood’s bright lights to contemplate: “But at the movies, all we’re getting is home-front angst and the occasional ‘Syriana,’ in which ‘moderate’ Islam is thwarted by evil American interests. But the notion that this war is about our moral failings is comfort fantasy, pure and simple. It soothes us with the false idea that, if we but mend ourselves, the scary people will leave us alone.”