It's a must-read book! Intense and factual! It's quick reading.Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth & Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam.
The Fight of Our Lives helps readers refocus, to reframe and understand the threats we face. By surveying and explaining the current scene, Bennett and Leibsohn point the way to a future in which our enemies are properly acknowledged and firmly opposed.
Throughout the book, we are presented with documented facts pertaining to our country's leadership, within the government and the military, regarding the "preferred" terminology for expressing the war on terrorism, the conflicts in the Middle East, and how our actions and response to terrorism is affecting and will affect this country in the very near future.
My first impression is to request all secondary history teachers require their students to read and discuss this book. Our youth should be provided with both sides of this urgent issue - the war on terrorism, or as the current administration refers to as 'Overseas Contingency Operation'. Then, after reading the book, I concurred with the authors that "having denied our children an understanding, knowledge, and appreciation for our Western and American ethics and history" in many of our schools, this book would not be read by many of our youth today. Thus, I would go so far as to suggest that copies of this book be made available, without cost, to all Americans.
The Fight of Our Lives is a wake-up call for the general public. We are in the fight of our lives because 1) we need to remind ourselves this is a fight against terrorism, unlike any other war we've been involved in before; 2) know what we should do; and most importantly, 3) know who we need to be.
Our political leadership has crumbled in the area of foreign diplomacy. Instead of condemning the leaders of countries who have made clear their intention to obliterate everything we value, we have leadership that appeases them. "The thought seems to be that if we speak nicely of Islam and ignore the terrorism it can produce, then Islamists will respect us more or lay down their swords."
The lack of moral clarity is a real issue in this country and that fact is made evident over and over in this truthful book. "Where once our law and culture were based on assigning blame on a perpetrator of wrong, and personal responsibility was commonplace (as well as common sense), a new psychology has taken hold in Western culture." Our children are learning to be politically correct instead of defending what is right and wrong. Instead of being concerned about offending someone by what we say, we should be denouncing those who would murder innocent men, women and children.
I am grateful that Mr. Bennett and Mr. Leibsohn have put into writing what they know is truth. If we are to prevail the war on terrorism, we must begin the great relearning. We must begin first by knowing how our own freedom has been won. We need to call good and evil by their proper names - to know the enemy as the enemy. To "let the doublespeak and nonspeak end and the great relearning and rededication begin."
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