9/11 was the catalyzing event which has lead us down the road towards fascism. It can be read in the Project for the New American Century written by top Neocons such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz (just to name a few) that in order for America to maintain it's dominance into the next century that we would need a catalyzing event on scale of Pearl Harbor. I think they got what the conveniently needed.