henninger, jason riley, and mary o'grady and bill mcgurn. dan, i remember we had a visitor from the counterterrorism group in the white house a couple months ago telling us this person telling us on background that they were concerned about europe. now we see it manifesting itself here at the christmas season. >> absolutely, paul. i was thinking very much the same thing. it was just a month ago, recall, that the pentagon made it known that they were going to move on an invasion of raqqa which is the islamic state head quarters in syria. this is a time when the iraq army and the coalition partners were trying to retake mosul. i thought that's a lot to bite off at the same time. but the pentagon said back then that they were concerned that the islamic state was going to try to project terror into