Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten

Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten


Andrew C. McCarthy: Lessons from the Blind Sheikh Terror Trial, What Animates Jihadists, Why U.S. Middle East Policy Fails, Collapsing Iran's Regime (Part I)

June 06, 2018

Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review, one of the nation’s foremost NatSec analysts/legal experts, and former Assistant US Atty in the SDNY chats with Ben Weingarten about prosecuting the Blind Sheikh -- mastermind of the first WTC attack -- and what it taught Andy about Islamic supremacism, what animates jihadists, willful blindness towards jihad, why US Middle East policy fails from Libya to Syria and collapsing Iran's Khomeinist regime. Show notes, transcript and more at benweingarten.com/bigideas.