How America’s 9/11 Response Enabled October 7

Podcast audio:

In this episode of New Ideal, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss how the failure of American post-9/11 policy led to the October 7 attacks.

Among the topics covered:

• How the failed American response to 9/11 paved the way for October 7;
• How religion and altruism undermined the response to Islamic totalitarianism;
• How the West lies to itself about the nature of Hamas;
• Why there are no voices articulating a positive strategy for the Middle East;
• The need to rethink the philosophic principles guiding American foreign policy.

Recommended in this podcast are Ghate and Journo’s book Failing to Confront Islamic Totalitarianism: What Went Wrong After 9/11 and Journo’s Winning the Unwinnable War: America’s Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism.

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