Elan Journo interviewed by Agustin Vergara Cide on 9/11

Foreign Policy

A Look Back at 9/11

September 11, 2018

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In this livestream discussion, Elan Journo takes a look back at September 11, 2001, America’s foreign-policy response to those attacks, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scale of the threat from the Islamist movement, and ARI’s unique perspective on these issues.

For in-depth discussions of these issues, see Journo’s article “Jihadists: Understanding the Nature of the Enemy” and his books Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism (2009) and Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: From George W. Bush to Barack Obama and Beyond (2016).

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Elan Journo

Elan Journo is a senior fellow and vice president of content at the Ayn Rand Institute. His books include Illuminating Ayn Rand (2022), Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11 (2021) and What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2018). Elan is a senior editor of New Ideal.

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Agustina Vergara Cid

Agustina Vergara Cid, LLB and LLM, is an associate fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and an opinion columnist at the Orange County Register.

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