stop terrorism in its tracks. we have not stopped terrorism. there has been no attack on american soil of any great size since 9/11 but the whole of the western world has been littered with terrorist attacks, and notjust littered with terrorist attacks, and not just the western world but places like indonesia. i think we are in a poor place. the taliban victory, as they see it, over the west end over the americans in particular, has given a huge boost to terrorist groups, whether in the region itself, but also in places like nigeria, boko haram, al—shabab in east africa, and who knows how many sleeper al-qaeda cells there are in western europe, for instance. we simply don't know, and the threat is very real. we simply don't know, and the threat is ve real. ~ . we simply don't know, and the threat is very real-—