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Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War Audio CD – Unabridged, April 11, 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMission Audio
- Publication dateApril 11, 2016
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.75 x 5.5 inches
- ISBN-101633899861
- ISBN-13978-1633899865
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- Publisher : Mission Audio; Unabridged edition (April 11, 2016)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 1633899861
- ISBN-13 : 978-1633899865
- Item Weight : 2.79 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.75 x 5.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,397,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The cleverest feature of Dr. Gorka’s argument is that we do not yet have the equivalent of George Kennan’s Long Telegram, which he reproduces in an eighteen page appendix. That message Dr. Gorka calls a case study in what the intelligence community refers to as an enemy threat doctrine analysis. Simply stated, what Defeating Jihad does is to update Kennan’s Long Telegram to define jihad as a threat doctrine, an imminent, existential one for America. It’s an inescapable, almost intuitive conclusion, made unnecessarily perplexing by the Obama Administration’s inability to grasp it.
Just as Paul Nitze’s NSC-68 constituted what intelligence analysts call a strategic response plan (responding to the conclusions Kennan reached), Dr. Gorka’s repurposed Long Telegram requires a comparable strategic response. This the author provides in a four and a half page Afterword (which could very well serve as the outline to a follow up book – or an updated NSC directive). It contains such prescriptions, again obvious to the politically literate reader, as designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, reimposing sanctions on Iran, recognizing the subversive objectives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and expanding human intelligence penetration into jihadist organizations. Above all the White House must recognize that jihadis are the enemy and that jihad is their threat doctrine. We are not in a war against terrorism or violent extremism; we are in a war against jihad. And there is no such thing as a lone wolf jihadi.
When this reviewer finished the last page of Defeating Jihad he reached for his iPhone and sent an email to President-elect Trump suggesting he designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
I don't know if I agree that radical Islam is akin to the Communist threat but it is a starting point. I believe that with Communism we were dealing with a country and a government that wanted power more than an idea. Where radical Islam is an idea that has spread to the four corners of the earth thanks to our not taking it seriously. We seem to want to fight each other more than the people cutting off heads and burning people alive. Which speaks volumes about the health of our country.
I enjoyed the mentions of George Kennan and Paul Nittze's work on defeating the Soviet Union. We always hear Reagan did it. It's nice to see the architects mentioned instead of just the general contractor.
I liked the brief run down of the radical jihadi's who have made up this ideology. Mawdudi, Sayyid Qutb, Abdullah Azzam, SK MAlik, Bin LAden, and Zawahiri. Most Americans don't know who these people are. But you should if you want to understand the ideology we are up against.
As usual Dr. Gorka being a recent immigrant to this country and wanting to be part of it and not separate understands freedom and our founding documents better than people who have been here 200 years. It is why immigration and assimilation is so important. People should love the freedom and opportunity this country's founding documents give them and want to defend them with their blood.
In the end it will be the ideas of freedom and liberty that will defeat this hate and not counter-insurgency and bombs. Yes the pointy end of the spear needs to be bloodied but the main focus should be spreading sunlight to the festering idea of radical Islam. But we have to get our own house in order if we are to be successful.
The authors begins the book with the account of Paul, someone close to the author, whose country of Hungary was overrun and occupied by Communists before the author was born. This introduction is stunning, and drives home the saying the freedom is priceless and fragile. The author comes across as very sincere, and toward the end he provides other resources the reader can turn to for more (often free) learning, such as the internet-based websites and reports, some of which he and his wife are editors/facilitators.
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