What We're Fighting For : A Letter from America

On February 12, 2002 six months after 9/11, 60 public intellectuals from across the human sciences and across the political spectrum released to the world a public letter, "What We're Fighting For: A Letter from America." Basically, the letter seeks to understand the meaning of the attacks of September 11, both for the United States and the world, and to defend on moral grounds the use of U.S. military force against the perpetrators and supporters of these attacks. This letter from America to the world asks, and seeks to answer, three main questions: (1) What are American values?; (2) What about God?; and (3) In response to the attacks of September 11, is the use of violence morally justified?Blankenhorn, David is the author of 'What We're Fighting For : A Letter from America', published 2002 under ISBN 9781931764025 and ISBN 1931764026.