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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN num: 9780385522212
ISBN number: 0385522215
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: September 11, 2007
Publishing house: Doubleday
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 18844
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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 very 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 III”) 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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Since the title of this non-fiction book is World War IV, you have to wonder what happened to World War III and how you missed it.
Well, the author, Norman Podhoretz, past editor of "Commentary Magazine," postulates that World War III began in 1947 and ended in 1989. That period is better known as "the cold war." World War IV became "our moment and our mission" on September 11, 2001 with the terrorist attack on New York City and is still in progress. However, as he points out, earlier terrorist acts led us up to that place and time.
In his book, he has brought together many opinions, excerpts from articles and speeches that address our involvement in current military actions. In the chapter entitled "The Mainstream Media," the author asserts that as progress grows in Iraq, the media coverage and support goes down. In other chapters, he lists three schools of thought-or "devotees of the Vietnam syndrome"-that have a collective interest in our failure in Iraq: the Isolationists, the Liberal Internationalists and the Realists.
Originally written and issued in 2007, World War IV has been reprinted with a 2008 postscript that is very timely. The author has assumed that Obama has gained the Democratic nomination for president and proceeds to discuss the differences between Obama and McCain on their views and strategies dealing with the Iraq war and, what he calls," Islamofascism." He does not address domestic issues but keeps a good focus on Iraq/Islamofascism, some of our foreign policies and relationships with other foreign governments, at the same time putting them into an historical perspective.
World War IV is very readable and not difficult to comprehend. The author provides a good historical background and a broad perspective on many of the foreign policy issues. Whether or not you agree with the author's views and analysis (he states that he is neoconservative), this book is still very informative and useful in gaining more insight into some of the arguments surrounding the war in Iraq and some of our other foreign involvements.
Armchair Interviews says: A very timely read.
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Relatively short, it is actually the extension of an essay published previously. At heart, it is a heavily polemical defense of the Bush Administration's view of the War on Terror. Not entirely convincing, Mr. Podhoretz is on firmer ground when he talks about the U.S. cultural and political debates than the actual nuts and bolts of foreign policy. In the latter area, it's clear that he's very intelligent and well-read, but nonetheless essentially a precocious amateur. In my opinion, Mr. Podhoretz also demonstrates a better understanding of the ideological and moral opposition to the Bush Administration's policies coming from its left than he does of that coming from its opponents on the right.
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Its hard to believe in 2008 that so many racists still feel comfortable
spouting hate against 1 million people. 99% of whom are innocent and good.
Yes, I have been to the middle east and not as a colonial occupier with a gun but as a traveler who respected their culture. I don't believe the
WEST is the best philosophy. That is juvenile type of thinking. You boys like to play at war without contemplating the long term effect of everyone involved. Shame on all of you!
Ms. Podhoretz is beyond shame. His belief system is as extreme as Osama Bin Laden without a doubt. People who are that arrogant glory only in there own light. THIS BOOK sucked and good thing I got it second hand!
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The title of the review says it all. If you want to kill scary brown people on behalf of hardliner Zionists in Israel and the Lobby, then keep drinking the neoconservative Kool Aid. The whole world knows that the so-called War on Terror was conducted using already created off the shelf plans (PNAC), and is about US-Israeli domination of all resources in the region, from oil in Iraq to water in southern Lebanon.
Face reality or Drink the Trotsky loving Pod Man's Kool Aid and continue to be conned by the same old Wilsonian interventionist myth about America's role in making the world safe for democracy. Whatever keeps Israel happy and gets Lockheed its welfare check, Nanny/Surveillance/Police State at home and endless war abroad, all wrapped in the flag, soaked in patriotic self-love, and delivered by an all powerful executive. Rah rah rah, everyone loves a winner, nobody likes a loser, especially The American People. That is what "Conservatism" has become.
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A book called The Much too Promised Land by Aaron David Miller makes Carter out to be a hero by talking about his sucess at Camp David but deletes any mention of how Carter let the pro-Israeli Shah fall and the anti-Israeli Khomeini rise! This book shows how Carter is indeed responsible for Khomeini's and now even Ahmadinejad's bad succcess!
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