MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008 Norman Podhoretz on World War IV: Chapter 1 of 5 Prolific author and time-tested conservative Norman Podhoretz describes why the current global struggle is in fact World War IV. What happened to WWIII? Podhoretz says we are now engaged in the third conflict in a succession of conflicts against totalitarianism. We took on Nazism in WWII, communism in the Cold War (which in retrospect Podhoretz labels WWIII), and now Islamofascism in WWIV. PERMALINK About Norman Podhoretz Norman Podhoretz is the editor-at-large of Commentary Magazine. His new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, was released by Doubleday on September 11, 2007.

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