Four authors of recent books about America's conflict with Islamism are like blind men feeling an elephant-each one describes the problem in a slightly different way. What unites them, though, is a single, over-arching question: if the jiha-dists are just a bunch of bloodthirsty, head-chopping, woman-haters, why does the West have such a hard time gaining the moral high ground in what America persists in calling the "war on terror?"
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