Zizek weighs in

[Gordon Fitch]

Carl Remick:
> There's a lot of excess arm waving in Zizek's remarks, but his main point is 
> clear and unexceptionable:  "America's 'holiday from history' was a fake: 
> America's peace was bought by the catastrophes going on elsewhere. Therein 
> resides the true lesson of the bombings: the only way to ensure that it will 
> not happen HERE again is to prevent it going on ANYWHERE ELSE."

I think this is certainly the ruling-class view.