The War of Ideas: Anti-Americanism, the Continuing Conflict, and the Role of the United States

Hudson Institute Presidential Transition Papers

January 8, 2009
by Hassan Mneimneh

The United States has already developed and gathered the

resources and allies for the role that it ought to assume in the

defining War of Ideas that the world is witnessing. What has

been lacking so far, often for the absence of a thorough appreciation

of the nature and scope of anti-Americanism, is the decisive

will to deploy this potential. While fighting the alarm ism

that has afflicted some of the calls to action in the War of Ideas,

it is hoped that the new administration will resist the temptation

of complacency that has characterized some calls for the

U.S. to abdicate its responsibilities in this conflict

Hassan Mneimneh was a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World.

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