Here's an interesting article I came across this afternoon, which highlights the importance of the events of 11/09/01, and their regular invocation, to the american regime's ability to continue to prosecute it's violent and illegal geopolitical agenda.
TNR Online | Death Grip (1 of 2) (print)
"From a terror management perspective," they wrote, "the United States' electorate was exposed to a wide-ranging multidimensional mortality salience induction."