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Willful Blindness: Memoir of the Jihad | 
| Author: Andrew C. Mccarthy
Publisher: Encounter Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  12 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 250
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 1594032130
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.325097471
EAN: 9781594032134
ASIN: 1594032130
Publication Date: April 14, 2008
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Product Description
Andrew C. McCarthy takes readers back to the real beginning of the war on terror--not the atrocities of September 11, but the first bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993 when radical Islamists effectively declared war on the United States. From his perch as a government prosecutor of the blind sheik and other jihadists responsible for the bombing, Andrew McCarthy takes readers inside the twisted world of Islamic terror.
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 Excellent book! July 6, 2008
Ian Vaughan (Haney B.C. Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A masterful expose' of the democrat's 9/10 viewpoint that has taken over the 2008 campaign
 Willful blindness to blowback. June 23, 2008
Preston C. Enright (Denver, CO United States)
6 out of 73 found this review helpful
In McCarthy's world, Arab militants apparently come out of a vacuum, or out of some passage from the Koran. What he and his admirers are willfully blind to is the brutality of U.S. foreign policy. Osama mentioned part of a long list of injustices - sanctions on Iraq that killed 500,000 children Iraq Under Siege, Updated Edition: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, U.S. support of Israel's aggression against Palestine Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project). There is barely a word of any of this, and so much more, in the countless books like McCarthy's that seek to demonize our victims. Keep in mind, these allegedly evil people are the same people we were arming, training and applauding when they were killing Russians Terrorism: Theirs and Ours. Authoritarian Islamic fundamentalists are the same people that the U.S. is happy to work with in countries like Saudi Arabia The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity, or in Indonesia The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989.
The sort of denial that McCarthy perpetuates is not only dishonest, it is dangerous. Most people are more civilized than us, and they don't seek vengence for all the suffering we heap upon them (i.e. - Vietnamese, Guatemalans, Haitians, El Salvadorans, Iranians, etc.), but we may someday receive another attack of blowback and it may be worse than the horror of 9/11. By the way, there is another 9/11 that we are willfully blind to; that is the September 11th that the corporate jihadists Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger inflicted upon Chile Chile: The Other September 11: An Anthology of Reflections on the 1973 Coup (Radical History).
For those who choose to see inconvenient truths about U.S. militarism:
Our Own Private Bin Laden
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
Why We Fight
too scary to read at bedtime June 19, 2008
Jim Kunkel (Houston, Texas)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
Everyone who doesn't want to learn Arabic and wants to keep their Bibles should read this book and think about what it says.
Keep a dictionary handy, however. He uses a few Bill Buckley quality words.
Willful Blindness: A Must Read June 15, 2008
Jon A. Longerbone (Laguna Niguel, CA USA)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Willful Blindness by former prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy, is a must read for those who wish to inform their decision-making process. Although McCarthy's writing style is obtuse at times, he brings to the table a high level of credibility and this book should be read by all Americans and, especially by those who honestly believe that peace can be achieved through diplomacy or that "western style" democracy is achievable in the middle east. The talkers are necessary, but without our second-to-none military and our industrial capabilities, they have no power to pursuade. Let's all take the blinders off and see the world for the truly dangeous place it has become.
Willful Blindness (Hardcover) by Andrew C. McCarthy June 8, 2008
P. Americus (Pittsburgh, Pa USA)
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Thank you Andrew C. McCarthy.
I did not know the long history and total dedication as related here.
Again Thanks
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