2040 MATTERS

Forget the Wall and Muslim Travel Ban and Focus on Interdicting Foreign Terrorist Fighters

Stimson Center Distinguished Fellow Brian Goebel suggests that the incoming Administration should launch the Combatting Terrorist Travel Initiative (CTTI) to improve our security by interdicting Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs) returning to Europe and North America — an Initiative that would be more effective and consistent with our national character than a proposed wall on the Mexican Border or the specter of a ban on Muslim travel to the U.S.