America is the fourth reich, not the third reich. A more accurate take on contemporary america than that of hitchens would be the film starship troopers.

Also, of course Osama Bin Laden did 9/11. The part that doesn't get talked about is that we blatantly antagonized this sort of result by (by in part the funding of) murdering and dehumanizing people worldwide in the name of ideological and economic dominance and called it progress.