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Tough times call for tough action: What we must do -- now -- in order to survive as a nation
American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century
by Tony Blankley
These are dangerous days for America. We face enormous
challenges at home and gathering threats from abroad -- and
just when the situation requires us to return to the proven
traditions of our history and heritage, Barack Obama and
the Democrats are moving in the opposite direction and
pushing exactly the wrong values and policies for our
national struggle. The situation is grave indeed: but now,
in American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in
the 21st Century, Tony Blankley sketches out a program to
get us through the next few tough years -- and to revive the
principles and practices that made our nation great.
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Blankley says that our first thought must no longer be
what is best for conservatism, liberalism, Republicans, or
Democrats, if we are to survive the unprecedented threat
from the global jihad just as the America-hating Left chips
away at our national resolve more energetically than ever.
Instead, he argues that we (and above all, our elected
officials) should ask what needs to be done to protect and
strengthen our nation. And the first thing we need to do,
says Blankley (the bestselling author of The West's Last
Chance and a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group), is
toughen up -- personally, culturally, and as a national
fighting force.
Blankley lays out a comprehensive program for nothing
less than national survival, explaining the policies that
we must adopt -- a military draft, energy independence,
wartime measures regarding the law and civil liberties, a
truly nationalist foreign policy, a global communications
strategy, and a reformed education curriculum -- if our
great grandchildren a hundred years from now are to look
out into the world from an America still strong enough to
guarantee our prosperity, our sovereignty, and our
individual freedom.
Measures such as these were the keys to America's
success in previous wars, says Blankley, and in American
Grit he sets out a series of persuasive arguments showing
why they must be rediscovered today. The politically
correct Left will howl, but this conservative manifesto to
restore America's grit is nothing short of essential: our
nation’s very future depends on it.
A compelling plan to create a resurgent U.S.:
- How, at this point in history, only the United States
could obliterate the United States -- and how (although it
is not too late) it is well on the way to doing so
- Why we must institute a universal military draft -- not
only to boost the size of our fighting force, but to
instill a unity of toughness and cultural purpose among
both the personally self-indulgent and un-assimilated
immigrants
- The most fundamental constraint on U.S. military
strategy: the limitations of America's land forces -- and
how, unless we begin now to restore and reshape the
services, there will be tragic consequences
- How we can -- and must -- pre-empt what will surely become
a concerted campaign of anti-drilling guerrilla legal
actions at the local, state, and federal levels
- Why there should be no legal exceptions for foreign
customs and values -- and why special accommodations that
have already been granted to Islamic groups should be
rolled back
- How the liberal media and the legal system today are
enfeebling our war against Islamic terror
- Why there should be no exception to security rules for
the most culturally aggressive groups in America -- and
why, as long as we face a unique terrorist threat from
Muslim men, it is absolutely appropriate and necessary
that they be subjected to additional security scrutiny
- How Congress should demonstrate this country's commitment
to victory by officially declaring war on the Islamic
jihadists who threaten us
- How America can get on the road to energy independence --
and expand our diplomatic and economic options in the
Middle East and around the world
- Why America is not stronger if we forego energy
independence in hopes of fighting global warming -- or if
we refuse to incentivize the development of oil shale out
of an insistence that we adhere to perfect free market
principles
- How American officials must communicate Western moral
values and the American spirit of self-determination to
people living under oppressive regimes (as well as to
voters here at home)
- Hard truths: why, while spreading democracy is noble as
an abstract aspiration, we must accept that in some
regions -- especially in the Middle East -- we will often
be better off siding with authoritarian leaders
- Why America must vehemently reject demands that would
impinge on our national sovereignty, even when such
demands come from our own allies
"A clarion call to a new nationalism"
"Egged on by new leaders promising the same
discredited liberal statism that fails time and again, too
many Americans line up at the trough, asking what their
country can do for them. In a searing ode to America’s
greatness, Tony Blankley reminds us that the real question
is what we can do for our country. American Grit is a
clarion call to a new nationalism: a fearless summons
exhorting citizens to elevate love of country over love of
self. That prescription, and no other, will ensure that our
union remains an unparalleled beacon of freedom, tough
enough to face down the tyrannical designs of radical Islam
and strong enough to rebuild the economic prosperity that
enables America to lead a troubled world." -- Andrew C.
McCarthy, National Review Legal Affairs Editor and author
of the national bestseller, Willful Blindness: A Memoir of
the Jihad
"Tony Blankley has long been one of America's most
trenchant conservative commentators and thinkers. In
American Grit, he provides conservatives -- and Americans
generally -- his wise thoughts on where we should be going
in the future." -- Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report
senior writer and American Enterprise Institute resident
fellow
"Tony Blankley brilliantly lays out a spot-on list of
the dire challenges that threaten America's future. From
our short-handed military to our energy dependence on
foreign adversaries, from destructive educational dogmas to
the media’s propensity for revealing classified
information—we ignore these problems at our peril. Tony
presents us with solutions. A must read!" -- Lieutenant
General Thomas G. McInerney (Ret.), former assistant vice
chief of staff, U.S. Air Force
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