9/11 Derangement Syndrome

"Moments of imperial and economic decline – according to a recent poll, 65 percent of Americans now believe this country to be 'in a state of decline' – can also be periods of cultishness, even of madness incarnate," says Tom Engelhardt of Max Blumenthal's look "[i]nside the bizarre cabal of secretive donors, demagogic bloggers, pseudo-scholars, European neo-fascists, violent Israeli settlers, and Republican presidential hopefuls behind the crusade" — The Great Fear.