Reviews
Christopher Hitchens reviewed the book with praise, and describes it as "an admirably tough-minded book." Hitchens goes on in his review and states:
- Mark Steyn's book is essentially a challenge to the bien-pensants among us: an insistence that we recognize an extraordinary threat and thus the possible need for extraordinary responses. He need not pose as if he were the only one with the courage to think in this way.
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