Fukuyama's focus on state-building began after September 11th, following the collapse of governments in Afghanistan and Iraq

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In modern international politics, ideological battles occur within individual nations between illiberal populist nationalists and liberal democrats

Taliban representatives approached the George W. Bush administration in late 2001 and early 2002 seeking a negotiated settlement in Afghanistan

The George W. Bush administration rejected early post-2001 settlement overtures from defeated Taliban elements in Afghanistan

In the book Democracy and Political Ignorance, legal scholar Ilya Somin argues that voter ignorance and irrationality are unavoidable features of democracy

In the book Against Democracy, Jason Brennan argues that most Americans are politically uninformed hobbits or tribal hooligans

The United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal by three detainees accused of plotting the September 11 attacks seeking to reinstate a plea agreement that excluded the death penalty

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin overrode an announced plea deal that would have spared three accused September 11 plotters the death penalty

The Democratic foreign policy doctrine is to prevent and deter war through military, economic, and political strength

The Democratic foreign policy doctrine states that wars of choice erode the U.S.'s strategic position and are costly to American lives and finances

A global struggle exists between open political systems like the US and Europe and closed systems like Russia and China

Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky proposed a system where Arab and Jewish prime ministers would govern the Jewish state alternatively

"War democracies" are countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine that are on the front lines of the struggle for the free world

Alex Marengetes was initially tasked by NIST to investigate the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11

Alex Marengetes's research concluded that fires melted the steel beams of the World Trade Center, causing the towers to collapse

The War on Terror has a current and projected cost of $6 trillion to U.S. taxpayers

The War on Terror resulted in the deaths of 200,000 Iraqi civilians

There has not been a repeat of the 9/11 attacks on U.S. soil

The War on Terror resulted in the deaths of 66,000 Afghan police and military personnel

American contractors in the War on Terror performed quasi-military tasks including base protection, VIP protection, and intelligence support

7,000 U.S. service members died during the War on Terror