Eddie Fishman
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
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And the big fear then was that we would have a nuclear 9-11, that the next terrorist group wouldn't just fly a plane into the World Trade Center.
Like they would have like a bomb laced with enriched uranium.
And it was a legitimate fear, right?
Because Iran was hypercharging its nuclear program and supporting these terrorist groups.
Yeah.
I mean, I think it was a real issue just given the stakes, right?
And given that 9-11...
It did happen, right?
So we had just experienced a massive, I mean, coordinated terrorist attack, you know, four planes that were hijacked.
Yeah, right.
So I do think it was legitimate.
And this is one thing that I'm conflicted about.
It's also why I think
honestly evaluating foreign policy is so difficult is that you don't know the counterfactual, right?
You don't know like, well, what would have happened if we had not done this, right?
And so like, if you look at the track record of US policy since 9-11, I would say most people, including myself, would say we like over, we exaggerated the impact, like how big of a threat terrorism was.
We like were scarred by 9-11.
It did take away a lot of our freedoms.
You know, I remember as a kid, you know, the first time I flew alone, my mom and dad taking me through security and like dropping me off at the gates.
And so we have lost a lot of our freedoms.
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