The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11

Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy At Home is released today. Here are excerpts from the book's catalog page at the Random House web site:

“In this book I make a claim that will seem startling at the outset. The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11."

...D’Souza contends that the cultural left is responsible for 9/11 in two ways: by fostering a decadent and depraved American culture that angers and repulses other societies—especially traditional and religious ones— and by promoting, at home and abroad, an anti-American attitude that blames America for all the problems of the world.

...We are accustomed to thinking of the war on terror and the culture war as two distinct and separate struggles. D’Souza shows that they are really one and the same. Conservatives must recognize that the left is now allied with the Islamic radicals in a combined effort to defeat Bush’s war on terror. A whole new strategy is therefore needed to fight both wars. “In order to defeat the Islamic radicals abroad,” D’Souza writes, “we must defeat the enemy at home.”

Notice this last paragraph, located on a page at the web site of no less prominent and mainstream an institution as Random House.

This publisher is actively promoting a book by explicitly accusing millions of Americans of treason and mass-murder. By conflating these Americans with radical fundamentalist murderers, Random House and D'Souza imply that the tactics of the war on terror -- imprisonment without trial, torture, and all the rest -- can and should be directed against every leftist.