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 A ghost haunts America, the specter of global jihad, the Islamic holy war. On September 11, 2001, nineteen jihadists hijacked four jetliners and used them as guided missiles to destroy the twin World Trade Towers, hit the Pentagon, kill nearly 3,000 people and cause several hundred billion. Dollars worth of direct and indirect damage to New York City and the national economy. But this was not the first time. Jihadists have attacked Americans sporadically since November 1979, when a mob shouting death to America seized the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 officials hostage for 444 days.
 President George W. Bush responded to the horrors of September 11 by declaring a global war on terror. Now in its second decade, that war has cost the United States thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Americans are haunted by horrific television images from around the Muslim world of blown up cities, hundreds of slaughtered bodies, thousands of refugees huddled in wretched camps, and American journalists in orange jumpsuits kneeling in the desert before the black cloak. Masked people will hang their heads. Americans are increasingly questioning whether the global war on terror has been worth these costs to their nation and the countries it fights.
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 This book analyzes America's crusade against jihadism. The central questions she addresses are these: In retrospect, what were the successes and failures of Washington's counter-jihadist strategy before and after 9/11? Looking ahead, should Americans stay the course or cut their losses in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere?
 Was the catastrophic 9/11 attack a one-time event or could similar or worse death and destruction happen again?
 The famous Harvard professor Samuel Huntington claimed that: "The basic problem of the West is not Islamic fundamentalism, it is Islam, another civilization, whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and obsessed with the inferiority of their power." Is this true?
 What exactly about Muhammad's words and actions, if anything, justify the barbarism of al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other jihadists?
 Finally, how dangerous is the specter of global jihad to the United States? A surprising surprise awaits the reader in the final chapter as renowned expert William Nester weighs the specter of global jihad against an array of other national security threats. To purchase the book click here