Putting the War on Terror on the Couch: Vamik Volkan's Blind Trust
ELIZABETH KIEM
Blind Trust: Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror. By Vamik Volkan. Pitchstone Publishing, May 2004. $19.95
Among 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.
Among 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.
