According to Mr. D'Souza, the real threat to America is at home.

On the night of January 16, 2007, well-known, somewhat inflammatory conservative Dinesh D'Souza appeared on the Colbert Report expecting to advertise (in a serious manner) his book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. This being the Colbert Report, Colbert was trying more for comedic effect through exaggerating D'Souza's claims. D'Souza however, kept on rolling with the punches and retained a semblance of seriousness with Colbert.

D'Souza's main point in his more or less 7 minutes of airtime was that depraved liberal culture (homosexuality, promiscuity, maggot-eating, etcetera) is responsible for the rest of the world's relatively negative view of America. He goes on to explain that this insane, excessive, glam America (The America of movies and Hollywood) is something we know is not "really" America, but that for the rest of the world it is all they are presented with, and all they know. In this I would have to agree; American media (with a few exceptions) is largely biased towards the liberal viewpoint, and this becomes reflected in what people from other countries hear about America from their own media. According to D'Souza, the rest of the world only knows the depraved liberal America.

Naturally, an America of homosexuals, out-of-control sex, non-traditional-ness (not a real word), rapists, pillagers, plunderers, capitalists, and atheists (oh, those evil atheists...) is not well received among people of more traditional cultures and values. In this, I agree with D'Souza.

However, that is where my agreement with him ends. In his book, D'Souza conveniently misconstrues or picks and chooses certain facts to further his arguments (and conveniently ignores others in the process). One person who reviewed the book on Amazon (Scoff not- there are a surprising number of very intellectual reviewers there) made one of my points as clear as it could be: "He attempts to explain away American torture and rendition claiming that PFC Lindie England was acting out her "blue state moral depravity" when she was abusing and humiliating prisoners at Abu Ghraib with unusual cruelty. This has all the logic of a psychoanalytic diagnosis made under the influence of a jug of white lightning rather than an insightful probe of the collective unconscious. He fails to mention the FACT that there is a higher rate of divorce, murder, illegitimacy, and teenage births in red states than in the morally depraved blue ones, that "traditional Muslims" in Brooklyn and neighboring New Jersey enclaves were warbling in celebration at the destruction on 9/11, or that American flags were adorning most homes and modes of transportation here in decadent New York City. " (Edwin C. Pauzer of New York City: Post linked here )

As such, I do not think that The Enemy At Home is a book that contains purely truths, but is merely a stepping stone on a journey to truth (as corny as that sounds). We analyze history not by seeing one source and taking it as the truth, but by taking in as many sources as possible to see the big picture.