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Summary: Moral Clarity: the West's Righteous War on Terror
Review: With the decline of world Communism, the new despotism that threatens the Western world, particularly the USA and Israel, is Islamism. This new threat is possessed of a hatred so deep and fanatical that many in the West find it difficult to believe it even exists, or can't be mollified by reason and compromise. It does exist, and many Americans simply do not have the will or the understanding to fight it effectively. William J. Bennett provides intelligent discussion of the problem and refutes schools of thought that would compromise our will to survive Al Quaeda, Hamas and other fanatics. He names the internal enemies that work inadvertantly with the external ones: the self-loathing of the political left, the errancy of pacifism, the anti-Americanism of the universities, the cultural balkanization of the United States through the current fads of multiculturalism and diversity. All of these forces have helped to undermine the West's moral clarity and will to survive external threats. William J. Bennett's book is a well written, concise description of the causes of terrorism and the internal obstacles we must overcome to resist and defeat it. The Blame-America-First crowd will pan this book, but that is to be expected. They are, as Bennett explains, a major part of the problem.
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