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The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism
Doubleday
September 2007
On Sale: September 11, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0385522215
EAN: 9780385522212
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
For almost half a century—as a magazine editor and as the
author of numerous bestselling books and hundreds of
articles—Norman Podhoretz has helped drive the central
political and intellectual debates in this country. Now, in
this beautifully written and powerfully argued book, he
takes on the most controversial issue of our time—the war
against the global network of terrorists that attacked us on
9/11.
In World War IV, Podhoretz makes the first serious effort to
set 9/11 itself, the battles that have followed it in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and the war of ideas that it has
provoked at home into a broad historical context. Through a
brilliant telling of this epic story, Podhoretz shows that
the global war against Islamofascism is as vital and
necessary as the two world wars and the cold war (“World War
IIIâ€) by which it was preceded. He also lays out a
compelling case in defense of the Bush Doctrine, contending
that its new military strategy of preemption and its new
political strategy of democratization represent the only
viable way to fight and win the special kind of war into
which we were suddenly plunged.
Different in certain respects though the Islamofascists are
from their totalitarian predecessors, this new enemy is
equally dedicated to the destruction of the freedoms for
which America stands and by which it lives. But it took the
blatant aggression of 9/11 to make most Americans realize
that war had long since been declared on us and that the
time had come to fight back. Past administrations, both
Republican and Democratic, had failed to respond with
appropriate force to attacks by Muslim terrorists on
American citizens in various countries, and even the bombing
of the World Trade Center in 1993 was treated as a criminal
act rather than an act of war. All this changed after 9/11,
when the whole country rallied around President Bush’s
decision to bring the war to the enemy’s home ground in the
Middle East.
The successes and the setbacks that have followed are
vividly portrayed by Podhoretz, who goes on to argue that,
just as in the two great struggles against totalitarianism
in the twentieth century, the key to victory in World War IV
will be a willingness to endure occasional reverses without
losing sight of what we are fighting against, what we are
fighting for, and why we have to win.
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