Was America's response to the 9/11 attacks at the root of today's instability and terror? The events of September 11, 2001, set off a chain of global crises and civil perils that have normalised a climate of fear and conflict. These include the disastrous effects of regime-change operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the war on terror, the rise of ISIS, and the growing existential threats of ecological and nuclear holocaust. Looking back, it is clear that the story of 9/11 has been used to legitimise and manufacture support for disastrous policies. In Bush and Cheney, Griffin argues that ripple effects of 9/11 have become so destructive and dangerous that a national reckoning has become essential, in the words of William Rivers Pitt, to stop 'the dominoes of September' from continuing to fall.