And perfectly good trees are going to die for this

Coming soon to the Hell Plaza Book Emporium:

According to one of the original neocons, Dinesh D'Souza, if the United States had only been more like Afghanistan under the Taliban, the World Trade Center might still be standing today:

In THE ENEMY AT HOME, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza makes the startling claim that the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts around the world can be directly traced to the ideas and attitudes perpetrated by America’s cultural left.

D’Souza shows that liberals—people like Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bill Moyers, and Michael Moore—are responsible for fostering a culture that angers and repulses not just Muslim countries but also traditional and religious societies around the world. Their outspoken opposition to American foreign policy—including the way the Bush administration is conducting the war on terror—contributes to the growing hostility, encouraging people both at home and abroad to blame America for the problems of the world. He argues that it is not our exercise of freedom that enrages our enemies, but our abuse of that freedom—from the sexual liberty of women to the support of gay marriage, birth control, and no-fault divorce, to the aggressive exportation of our vulgar, licentious popular culture.

The cultural wars at home and the global war on terror are usually viewed as separate problems. In this groundbreaking book, D’Souza shows that they are one and the same. It is only by curtailing the left’s attacks on religion, family, and traditional values that we can persuade moderate Muslims and others around the world to cooperate with us and begin to shun the extremists in their own countries.

In other words, if we just do what the Islamofascists want, maybe they'll leave us alone. Ladies, get your burqas.

You know, back in the 1980's, I used to work at Simon & Schuster for the editor who brought authors like this clown to print. This guy published some of the most loathsome neocons, but the two editors and the assistant who reported to him were all progressives. We used to laugh while sending out galley proofs, saying we wanted to fake up blurbs that said "This book fills a much-needed void." It's now over 20 years later, and where books like this are concerned, it's still true.