Zizek re September 11

[Otto]

"Now, those of fascistic disposition - or merely those among us who
remain all too ready to justify any government action, whether right
or wrong - will immediately point out that this is prewar thinking,
and that the moment enemy bombs begin to fall on one's homeland,
altering the landscape and producing casualties among friends and
neighbours, all this sort of thing, really, becomes irrelevant, if not
indeed subversive. With the homeland in danger, strong leadership and
effective measures become of the essence, and if you want to call that
fascism, very well, call it whatever you please, no one is likely to
be listening, unless it's for the air raids to be over and the all
clear to sound. But the unseemliness of an argument - let alone a
prophecy - in the heat of some later emergency, does not necessarily
make it wrong."

(Pynchon, "1984" - Foreword)