miliitarism

Here's a bit from a good essay on AlterNet.org about how September 11th is misused by the media and misunderstood by the American people:

What happened on Sept. 11, 2001, was extraordinary and horrible by any measure. And certainly a crime against humanity. At the same time, it was a grisly addition to a history of human experience that has often included many thousands killed, en masse, by inhuman human choice.