Reviews for Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism

The average rating for Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-10-31 00:00:00 James Powell Read this for research purposes, for an article on conservatism, the culture wars, and the early War on Terror. Bennett makes a partial effort to be fair, but his argument relies mostly on platitudes and nut-picking of liberal viewpoints. Worth reading as a primary historical source but not otherwise. "Moral clarity," in his case, means little more than suspending critical thinking and ignoring any possibility that the United States has ever done wrong in the world.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-25 00:00:00 Regina Walsh A refreshing case for moral clarity and the justice of the war on terror and a well aimed expose of the leftwing elites who preach that America is at fault, and in the wake of 911 brought the attacks on herself. Bennett exposes these hypocrites for the immorality and superficial sophistry of the ideas this coterie of writers, journalists, intellectuals and academics are trying to push onto America and the West as a whole. These malignant narcissists are guided not by pacifism or morality at all but simply an anti-American animus There advice to the West is not simply 'dont hit' which has merit but 'dont hit back' which is a totally immoral thing to preach.\ When left-wingers claim that 'Killing people wont solve anything' as one of their activists moaned íts just more of the same'' Bennet reminds us that its not more of the same at all. Its the opposite of the same. As he says "Terrorists target innocent civilians ; they seek the destruction of innocent life. Military action seeks to combat terrorists seeks to avoid non-combatant casualties'' In fact, while there are innocent casualties resulting America's actions against terror, without action against terrorism many more innocent people would die. This book was written during the war against terror by President George W Bush. We can see today, with Obama following a policy of appeasement, how terrorism has proliferated with the rise of ISIS and Boko Haram, the straightening of Hamas and Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran being on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons with almost the open blessing of Obama. Furthermore the left and Islamists have introduced a concept called Íslamophobia' with which to accuse anyone who points to the danger of Islamic terror or abuses-which gives the Islamists free reign of terror, murder and rape. As for those leftwing Americans and British who attack their own countries militaries Bennett quotes George Orwell who spoke of pacifists in World War II : ''Those who 'abjure' violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf. Art any rate they dont oppose violence at all. They opose military action against terror by the West and Israel, but continually praise acts of terror as 'resistance against oppression/occupation//imperialism'" Feminists and gay and lesbian activists attack the male machismo of what they describe as american militarism but praise the machismo of Islamic jihad. What passes for pacifism is not pacifism at all but anti-Americanism/anti-Westernism. Bennett makes no apologies for rightly stating that the war against Islamic terror like world War II and the war against Soviet Communism is a war of good against evil. He also reminds us far from the post modern lefts mantra that '"Óne mans terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'' there is in fact a crystal clear difference between terrorists and freedom fighters. A freedom fighter does not massacre innocents in pursuit of his goals The Left have a transparent double standard on this anyway. They on the one hand state that there is no objective good and evil and the other hand rant about Western imperialism' and Israel being an absolute evil that must be violently destroyed - how pacifist is that? And how nonjudgemental from those who preach pacifism and nonjudementalism. The book includes a valuable chapter on ''The Case of Israel"' The author makes it clear that the Arab-Israeli conflict is asymmetrical This is because one side (Israel) wishes to live in peace while the other side is bent not on living in a state next to Israel but in an Arab state replacing Israel. The Israelis have revealed again and again their desperation for peace making far reaching concessions (Barak's offer at Camp David in 2000 and the Gaza withdrawal of 2005 are just two examples) while the so-called Palestinians are simply hellbent on violent destruction of the Jewish State and its people. Acording to religious fatwa from Kuwait , that claim that the killing of Israeli women and children are justified as all 'Jewish women in the zionist entity are by definition fighters'' conspiracy theories that blame Israel for 911 The author rightly proclaims that '"The burden is not on Israel to make peace. The burden is on the Palestinians to renounce their terrorism and on both the Palestinians and the Arab States to renounce their murderous intention towards Israel. The day they make peace with the existence of a sovereign Jewish State in their midst will be the day the conflict ends. Bennett does not deny that there are injustices and problems in America and the West but the free society these represent are indeed far superior to a culture that condones murder and rape jihad, genital mutilation and systematic oppression of women and girls Bennett makes no apologies for his conviction that Western society is valuable, moral and worth fighting for. And this makes the book vital reading.