Can America come home to itself?
The U.S. has many allies in the “war on terror.” But it has no allies more effective, more persevering, and more fertile in spin-off benefits than Muslim women. As mothers of the next generation, they will decisively influence what the Muslim world’s many turmoils will engender: still more angry jihadists seeking paradise in an afterlife? Or young men and women with achievable dreams for this world? America, the world’s great magnet-nation for dreamers, should holster a few guns, and think about this: How, respectfully, can it help young Muslims make their dreams come true? This book has tried to highlight a few things – primordially, sound education -- that support healthy dreams: those normal aspirations that can make an existence a life. Things that can help ordinary people find happiness in a difficult, often terrifying, world. Things that can bring prosperity, stability and harmony to whole societies. Things to make peoples at ease enough with themselves to seek peace.
Saying this is not to advocate social work in the name of defense. One last time: It’s to promote hard-nosed, genuine “national defense” through smarter, more affordable, far more workable means. Means that promote peace, not endless war. Means that allow America to return to its roots, to its highest values, to itself.