9/11: A Failure of Academia

Dr. Walid Phares argues that the attacks on 9-11 reflect our failure to educate ourselves about the growing threat of Islamofascism. The 9-11 commission called it a failure of imagination. But imagination requires a basic foundation of knowledge from which to operate. What we lacked in the 1990's was the knowledge of the growing insanity in the Arab world and the understanding that it would continue to grow into a serious threat unless it was dealt with in a serious way. But political leaders and academics in education were unable, or unwilling, to keep us up to date with the rapidly changing world. And on 9-11 that world made itself known to us in the most horrific of ways.