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Lee Harris, Civilization and Its Enemies - How do we preserve the values of Western civilization from the onslaught it faces from Islamic terror? How do we prevent a rogue nuclear strike with weapons developed inside small Arabic states that support terror as a weapon? The methods we have devised to defuse potential warfare between states won't work in defeating ruthless enemies who hide from us. This thoughtful, clear and purposeful book presents on practically every page an idea, an insight that will, if it gets the readership it should, help us all to understand and deal with this major crisis. If you want to know more about the enemy, the dangers of relying on Clauswitzian war, the rare virtues of the west, and the necessary gamble we must take to save the liberal world order, its all in this book.
It has inspired me to prepare a paper, to make a small contribution to bringing this book to increased public notice.

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Civilization and Its Enemies
Lee Harris
Simon & Schuster Free Press, Feb 2004, $26.00, 232 pp.
ISBN: 0743257499

These are well written essays that will have readers debate several of the prime conclusions (America is the last bastion for civilization to fend off the barbarians and America hid in the sand as if it had no enemies until the 9/11 wake up call). CIVILIZATION AND ITS ENEMIES postulates that recent presidents especially the enemy of the state Clinton failed to understand that th ...