This all started after 9/11. It was the first time that the GB had disaster in their own backyard. They realized that it would be a good idea if everyone else was ready.
Nevermind the fact that everyone outside the US faced terrorism years before the US did. If this is not evidence of the fact that this is an American religion driven by what happens in the US nothing else is. Hell, the dropping of the bookstudy arrangement was driven by the high gas prices in the US in 2007-2008. The rest of the world was already paying 5 or 6 dollars a gallon. The poor US suffers and we drop a meeting.
Bullshit.