In the US, the 9/11 attacks resulted in the instantaneous crystallization of a paranoid group formation, functioning as defense — not against the real dangers of the situation — but rather against an underlying, identity-shattering state of psychotic panic. This regressed collective emotional state was exploited by the Bush regime to initiate the war in Iraq, a war that plays out internationally the Ur-Fascistic tendencies that late capitalistic systems have difficulty containing.