: America's self-crippled response to Islamic totalitarianism
/ edited by Elan Journo.
Lanham :
Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield pub.
2009.
xi, 255 p. ;
24 cm.
International Relations. Ethics
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : An unwinnable war? - The road to 9/11 / Elan Journo - What motivates the jihad on America / Elan Journo - The "forward strategy" for failure / Yaron Brook and Elan Journo - "Just war theory" vs. American self-defense / Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein - Neoconservative foreign policy : an autopsy / Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein - Eight years after 9/11 : an appraisal / Elan Journo - The road to victory : a radical change in U.S. Mideast policy / Elan Journo.
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"Winning the Unwinnable War shows how our own policy ideas led to 9/11 and then crippled our response in the Middle East, and it makes the case for an unsettling conclusion. By subordinating military victory to perverse, allegedly moral constraints, Washington's policy has undermined our national security. Owing to the significant influence of Just War Theory and neoconservatism, the Bush administration consciously put the imperative of shielding civilians and bringing elections to them above the goal of eliminating real threats to our security. Consequently, this policy left our enemies stronger, and America weaker than before."--BOOK JACKET.