september 11th report(What's so great about America D'souza's book)

D’Souza opens with “A Funeral Oration Pericles’ Dilemma, and ours” in which he relates what is happening in America now to the problems that the people of Athens in 430 B.C. were forced to deal with. Throughout history there has always been great conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. D’Souza first makes the connection by pointing out a dilemma that has been familiar to all empires, he puts forth the question “ how to articulate the blessings of freedom which are usually taken for granted, how to communicate to citizens the necessity of making sacrifices-including the ultimate sacrifice of one’s life-in the name of freedom, and how a society accustomed to the pleasures of private life can prevail against a more militaristic regime inured to hardship whose fighters are cheerfully willing to endure death.” We have seen this exact problem come to our front door, men not fearing their own death but looking forward to it have attacked us. D’Souza also makes the com...