Elan Journo--Have We Learned Anything From 9-11? 18.Sep.14

Elan Journo of the Ayn Rand Institute talks about some of the lessons we can draw from what we have witnessed in the Middle East, during the thirteen years since 9/11. How should we judge the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Who is the enemy? How should we think of ISIS?

Other points covered:

• How conventional morality — the notion of altruism, i.e., the idea that self-sacrifice for the sake of others is the essence of morality — crippled our military response to 9/11.

• Why the Bush doctrine of spreading democracy in the Middle East was doomed to fail.

• The nature of the enemy: Who are they and what drives them?