Yeah I know this is a "CMV" but if the OP wants to know more about America's obsession with an enemy, this is a nice book to check
I haven't read it but in American politics the classic work on the subject is Richard Hofstadter's <em>The Paranoid Style in American Politics.</em>
NIMBYism is just a convenient catch-all. IMO the constituent factors are:
Hofstadter's Paranoid Style in American Politics was on the nose.