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Article: World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofascism.(Book review)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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World War IV: The Long Struggle against Islamofascism. By Norman Podhoretz. New York: Doubleday, 2007.230 pp. $24.95.
In World War IV, Podhoretz, a doyen of the neoconservative intellectual movement, places the struggle against Islamism in its historical context. He suggests that U.S. inaction in the face of decades of Middle Eastern terrorism served to embolden terrorists and that while 9-11 shocked U.S. policymakers and the public, it was in fact only the most sensational of a string of terrorist attacks that had seldom drawn reprisals.
For George W. Bush, however, 9-11 would instigate a break with past indifference to terrorism. In a September 20, ...