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America's War against Global Jihad - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover)
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America's War against Global Jihad - Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover)
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A specter haunts America, the specter of Global Jihad, Islamic Holy
War. This specter was never more horrific than on September 11,
2001, when nineteen fanatics hijacked four jetliners and used them
as guided missiles to destroy the twin World Trade Towers, damage
the Pentagon, murder nearly 3,000 people, and cause as much as
several hundred billion dollars' worth of direct and indirect
damage to New York City and the national economy. But Jihadists
have periodically attacked Americans ever since November 1979, when
mobs shouting death to America overran the American embassy in
Tehran and held 52 officials hostage for 444 days. President George
W. Bush responded to the September 11 atrocities by declaring a
global war on terror. Now in its second decade, that war has cost
the United States thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
Americans are haunted by horrific televised images from across a
swath of the Muslim world of bomb-blasted cities, hundreds of
slaughtered bodies, thousands of refugees huddled in squalid camps,
and American journalists in orange jump suits kneeling in the
desert before the black robed and masked men who will behead them.
Americans increasingly question whether the global war on terror
has been worth those costs for their own nation and the lands where
it is fought. This book analyzes America's crusade against
Jihadism. The key related questions it addresses are these: Looking
back, what were the successes and failures of Washington's
counter-Jihadist strategy before and after September 11? Looking
ahead, should Americans stay the course or cut their losses in
Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere? Was the catastrophic September 11
attack a one-time event or could its equivalent or worse in death
and destruction happen again? Renowned Harvard professor Samuel
Huntington asserted that: "The underlying problem for the West is
not Islamic fundamentalism, it is Islam, a different civilization,
whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and
are obsessed with the inferiority of their power." Is that true?
Just what of Muhammad's words and deeds, if any, justifies the
barbarism of al Qaeda, Islamic State, and other Jihadists? Finally,
just how corporeal is that specter of global Jihad to the United
States? A startling surprise awaits the reader in the final chapter
as acclaimed expert William Nester weighs the specter of global
Jihad against an array of other national security threats.
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