Book Review: The Anti-American Chorus
Jed Babbin, a political commentator who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense for the first President Bush, warns that Americans are too optimistic about the prospects of making peace with our enemies, either because we ignore the things they write and say, or because we interpret their words through the lens of our experience with reasonable, decent people. This is a mistake because, as Newt Gingrich warns in the Foreword, “if we fail to understand that our enemy is evil, we have failed to understand what we are fighting.”
Mar 16, 2011
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