Elan Journo

 

Specialties: Foreign Policy, Foreign Aid, Islamic Terrorism, National Security, Individual Rights

Elan Journo Elan Journo is a resident fellow focusing on foreign policy issues at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights. He is the editor of and chief contributor to Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism. His Op-Eds have appeared in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Sun-Times, and Orange County Register. Mr. Journo's articles have also been published in major newspapers abroad, including Australia's Herald Sun, Canberra Times and Canada's Globe and Mail. Mr. Journo is also a contributing writer for The Objective Standard, a quarterly journal of culture and politics. Mr. Journo has lectured in college campuses and has given numerous radio interviews on foreign policy and the threat of Islamic totalitarianism.

Essays

Op-Eds

Our Self-Crippled War

Obama Whitewashes Iran

With or Without Nukes, Iran Is a Mortal Threat

Bush's War Policy: The Top Campaign Non-Issue?

The Price of Bush's Commitment to Palestinian Statehood

The Pakistan Crisis

Is Washington With Us?

The Real Disgrace: Washington's Battlefield "Ethics"

How to Stop Iran?

Washington's Make-Believe Policy on Iran

What Real War Looks Like

The U.S.-Israeli Suicide Pact

Diplomacy Only Encourages North Korea's Belligerence

Washington's Failed War in Afghanistan

Washington's Pro-Hamas Foreign Policy

Why Are CEOs Paid So Much?

The Injustice of Saddam's Trial

Death to "Diplomacy" with Iran

The UN's "Virtue" Is Its Vice

The Perversity of U.S. Backing for the Gaza Retreat

Betraying the Real Freedom Fighters

Bush's Betrayal of America: The Iraqi Elections

Rewarding the MVPs of the Business World

America's Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive

Arafat's Undeserved Honor: The West's Shame

Multiculturalism's War on Education

America's Compassion in Iraq Is Self-Destructive

Council on Bioethics Antagonistic to Man's Well-Being

Exploiters vs. Victims in the Grocery Strike

The Mounting Threat of Homegrown Terrorism

The Timid War on Terrorism

The Ideological Reconstruction of Iraq

Capitalists vs. Crooks

Homegrown Terrorism

Israel's Suicide

"Peace" Process: Israel's Path to Suicide

The Immorality of a "Compassionate War" on Terrorism

Press Releases

Safeguarding Afghanis More Important Than American Lives?

U.S. Appeasement Continues

Diplomacy Encourages North Korea's Belligerence

Pakistan's Surrender to the Taliban

How to End Piracy in the High Seas

National Service Is Un-American

U.S. Should Help Crush Hamas

Bush's Pro-Democracy Strategy Is Pro-Terrorism

The Afghanistan-Pakistan Nightmare

You Call this "Victory"?

Ayn Rand's Ideas: An Introduction

Memo to U.S. Editors: Reprint Muhammad Cartoons

Do the Palestinians Want Peace?

A Foreign-Aid Controversy . . . Reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged

"Pressuring" Iran While Ahmedinijad Strolls the Red Carpet

Iraq's Failing Government

The Road to 9/11: How America's Selfless Policies Unleashed the Jihadists

The Road to 9/11: How America's Selfless Policies Unleashed the Jihadists

U.S. Negotiates with Iran, Iran Wins

The G-8 vs. the Immoral Bandwagon for African Aid

U.S. Should Shut Down Al Hurra TV

Study of Troops' Mental Health, Ethics Indicts Bush's Selfless War

Hostages of Iran

Explaining the Failure of Bush's "Forward Strategy for Freedom" in the Middle East

Fight, Don't Negotiate with, Palestinians

Why Lebanon Is Poised to Fall into Islamist Hands

America's self-defense should not be left at the mercy of the United Nations

North Korea's Power Over the West

Islam's Role in the Terror War on America

Letters to the Editor

Looking for Allies

Hussein Deserves No Regular Trial

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