The Burn Bag – National Security and Foreign Policy Redefined

9/11, Twenty Years On: A'ndre, Ryan, and Javed Reflect

September 13, 2021 Episode 79
The Burn Bag – National Security and Foreign Policy Redefined
9/11, Twenty Years On: A'ndre, Ryan, and Javed Reflect
Show Notes

In this week's episode of The Burn Bag Podcast, A'ndre, Ryan, and Javed Ali (former NSC Senior Director of Counterterrorism) reflect on the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th Attacks. Javed recounts his experience of being in Washington D.C. on the day of the attacks, having driven past the Pentagon shortly before it was hit, and shares how those tragic events shaped his own career in national security and counterterrorism. A'ndre and Ryan both share their own perspectives on how the the tragic events of that day shaped their own lives -- especially since both Burn Bag co-hosts were just toddlers in 2001, and have never known a pre-9/11 world.