The Fight Of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth, and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical IslamThe Fight Of Our Lives Refocus on the fight. Ten years ago, when radical Islamist terrorists used three U. S. airplanes to kill nearly three thousand of our countrymen, America was angry. It was a focused and justified angerone that generated clear objectives and a willingness to meet them. But that resolve has deteriorated so much that many of our nations top political and military leaders will scarcely utter the word that brought us here, terrorism,