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Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror. By Vamik Volkan. Pitchstone Publishing, May 2004. $19.95Among the myriad books tracing the path from poor airline security to the occupation of Iraq, very few analyses examine the trajectory of the war on terror through anything other than a geopolitical lens. In most treatments, forging a link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein as equal partners in an Axis of Evil, whether termed "preemptive" or "opportunistic," is seen as a clear objective in a deliberate foreign policy.
