The Merchants of Fear: Why They Want Us to Be Afraid... Book

List of Figures     ix
Preface     xi
Acknowledgments     xix
Introduction: A Nation at the Crossroads of Freedom     xxiii
The Road to Fear Is Paved with Good Intentions     1
A History of Actions and Consequences     5
A New McCarthyism     37
The Romance of the Cold War     43
Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders     51
Religion and the Rationale for Violence     63
The U.S. Fear/Threat Reaction and Global Defense     79
Ethnic Tents and Nationalist Hatreds: The Need for Enemies     83
Who Hates Us and Why?     97
And What About the Media?     107
The Erosion of Liberty Values: Fear Is a Distorting Force     121
Internalizing Fear: Venturing Down a Slippery Slope     129
The Consequence of Fear and America's Decline from Within     133
The Value Proposition of the United States     143
Effects of U.S. Policies on the Value Proposition of Its Goods and Services     157
Good and Just Trade versus Evil and Unjust Commerce     165
The Price of Freedom, Liberty, and Commerce     175
The Next Wave of Commerce     181
Breaking the Cycle of Fear: Can America Rebound?     185
How Not to Be a Victim of Fear     189
An Inconvenient Truth and the Convenient Enemy     199
Rekindling the American Spirit     207
Endnotes     219
Index     238