About this title: This title is the "New York Times" bestseller - now in paperback. In "America Alone", Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought and flair for the apocalyptic, Mark Steyn to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic Terrorism. Steyn addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780895260789ISBN:0895260786
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781596985278ISBN:1596985275
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc
Date Published: 2006-09-16
ISBN-13:9780895260789ISBN:0895260786
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Regnery Press
Date Published: 2008-04-07
ISBN-13:9781596985278ISBN:1596985275
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Regnery Pub
Date Published: 2008-05-20
ISBN-13:9781596985278ISBN:1596985275
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Regnery Pub
Date Published: 2006-10-16
ISBN-13:9780895260789ISBN:0895260786
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780895260789. read more
"I enjoyed the book. It is very informative and brings out things that people should be aware of in their daily lives not only in religion, but in politics and what is coming on the world stage."
"The Canadian Steyn inject quite a bit of humor into this book, which you'll probably like if you tend towards the conservative, but which may strike a discordant note if your sympathies lie elsewhere. Steyn presents the case that radical Islam of the Wahabi strain has been aggressively exported around the globe due to the oil money flooding the middle east. While he acknowledges America's culpability in this, his main point is that American is the only country positioned to have an effect on the spreading Muslim influence. Britain and France have very large Muslim minorities, and he argues effectively that these minorities do quite a lot to influence how tough (or how easy) these countries go on Islamic terrorism. He uses demography to illustrate that many of the countries associated with western civilizations (Italy, Spain, Britain, France) have birth rates that are below the replacement rate, i.e., they are dying out. The youth in those countries and the energy belong to the Muslims, and bit by bit they are implementing their agenda.
He makes the point that in our haste to clarify that we are not at war with Islam as a whole, we are failing to react to the very real threat of change that would result from a worldwide shift to countries ruled by Islamic values, which are undeniably much different than our own, and not in a good way. Lack of respect for women, intolerance of gays, brutal punishments for crimes, these are all looming for countries close to adopting Sharia law, as Britain inches closer to doing.
I tend to be of the mind that there are good and bad in every religious group, and my instinct is to ignore these warnings and continue to grant the benefit of the doubt. But I also must acknowledge that much of the current prosperity of the world comes from the Christian values (I am not a Christian by the way), and general respect for the individual that is our western heritage. And I agree wholeheartedly with Steyn that if the enemies are radical Muslims, we should say so. We should not be so afraid of being PC that we show the enemy that they can hollow us out from within.
Another point he makes that strikes a chord is that the economic prosperity associated with Europe is largely subsidized by the U.S., whose forces around the world provide security. If they were forced to spend on defense what we spend, it would be a different story, certainly, and this refutes the idea that somehow the European welfare state has some magical idea that we should embrace. Indeed, as he points out with demographics, soon the cradle to grave entitlements and 30 hour work weeks enjoyed by the aging European populations will be in the hands of a growing contingent of Muslim youth, who may decide they do not wish to carry it on their backs, at least without taking control first.
You'll probably hate reading it if you're a liberal, but if you're independent, as I used to be, it'll be useful to hear someone point out why the U.S. is not only not a terrible country, but indeed represents the last remaining outpost in a Cold War that the rest of the world has lost the will to fight."
"Realized what I had already known from living in Europe for 2 years about population decline in the western world. A great way for a people to take over the world these days is to have lots of kids. Great information that everyone should know about how to protect ourselves from political correctness as well."
1. The West is in demographic decline while Muslim nations breed at a far higher rate. 2. The West is too bulky with bloated government and social welfare programs that cannot be sustained. 3. We are too tired (what he terms "civilizational exhaustion") and ashamed of our greatness to do anything about it.
And if America cannot summon the will to shape the emerging world it will be the "end of the American moment." In the demographic section of the book he takes to task, time and again, the doomsday predictions of the ecochondriac crowd and overpopulation charlatans and points out that the granddaddy of root causes (demography) tells us our planet will be uninhabited before it is uninhabitable. It is human inventiveness that solves those problems and that is the commodity we are running out of.
The conceit of a book like this, in dealing with demographics, is its conclusions are premised on the idea that things will stay the same. But it is by far the funniest in the "death of the West" genre and my only complaint is lack of footnotes."
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