The West at WarBradley C. S. Watson Lexington Books, 2006 - 222 էջ In The West at War, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together renowned scholars and public policy experts to reflect on perhaps the most pressing problem of our time--the West's increasingly bloody conflict with forces that seek nothing less than its destruction. In eleven provocative chapters, contributors deal with the internal challenges and external conflicts facing Western civilization in the context of the "war on terror." Ranging from the nature of Islam and the West, to ethics and terror, to the western way of warfare, the volume deals thematically with major issues raised by this conflict in a way that no other single-volume does. Contributors bring to bear arguments on the philosophic, political, religious, ethical, and policy dimensions of the war. As the title of the book suggests, this conflict implicates all of Western civilization, demonstrating that this not merely an "American" concern. |
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... lay . Finally , I owe thanks to my family - Barbara , Victoria , Charles , and James - in whom I see the reasons we must fight , and win . Introduction A Stomach for this Fight ? Terrorism and the xii Acknowledgments.
... lay . Finally , I owe thanks to my family - Barbara , Victoria , Charles , and James - in whom I see the reasons we must fight , and win . Introduction A Stomach for this Fight ? Terrorism and the xii Acknowledgments.
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... reason that it would require updating between the time I write this and the time of publication ) , there is nothing abstract about the actions of terrorists . Civilized people have an interest in encouraging widespread agreement on a ...
... reason that it would require updating between the time I write this and the time of publication ) , there is nothing abstract about the actions of terrorists . Civilized people have an interest in encouraging widespread agreement on a ...
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... reason- able to judge a regime type by its fruits . And by this measure , Western liberal democracy does not fare well . Much of our media and other important seg- ments of the opinion - making classes have beat the drums of negativity ...
... reason- able to judge a regime type by its fruits . And by this measure , Western liberal democracy does not fare well . Much of our media and other important seg- ments of the opinion - making classes have beat the drums of negativity ...
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... people's fear of the afterlife be diminished relative to their fear of the here and now . And so modern reason , and the experimental science that is its handmaid , sought to diminish fear of the supernatural by 8 Introduction.
... people's fear of the afterlife be diminished relative to their fear of the here and now . And so modern reason , and the experimental science that is its handmaid , sought to diminish fear of the supernatural by 8 Introduction.
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... reasons overlap my own , as laid out in the subsequent chapter . It does violence to the actual gospels to suggest that violently resisting evil cannot be done with the support of the ethic of Jesus . This is something that the just war ...
... reasons overlap my own , as laid out in the subsequent chapter . It does violence to the actual gospels to suggest that violently resisting evil cannot be done with the support of the ethic of Jesus . This is something that the just war ...
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A Failure of Imagination Thinking About Culture Tradition and Society After 911 | 19 |
Understanding Radical Islam | 29 |
Understanding Jihadist Terrorism After 911 | 41 |
Western Identities Versus Islamist Terrorism Liberals and Christians in the New War | 53 |
The Liberal Regime Under Attack | 73 |
The Rise of Toleration in the West and Its Implications for the War on Terror | 99 |
ETHICS AND TERROR | 111 |
The Christian Just War Tradition Neither Niebuhr nor Yoder | 113 |
Ethics and Terror A Moral Vocabulary for Statesmen | 135 |
What Doth It Profit a Man? Preserving Liberty and the Rule of Law in the War on Terror | 157 |
THE WESTERN WAY OF WARFARE | 179 |
The War on Terrorism and the Western Wayof War | 181 |
Media Bias in Iraq The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Americans | 199 |
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About the Contributors | 219 |
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Էջ 11 - Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven, Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, *I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness...