religious figure by those, was characterized by this president? >> a couple of points. when events like this happen, there's usually a sort of dip for lack of a better term, in the level of violence as the leadership of these organizations -- like after the death of bin laden, where they try to reorganize, reconstitute, reorder themselves structurally. we could look for a period of quiscence for a time. we can look forward in the future to something like this happening. the last point i'll make, it's important. that this raid reinforces is isis now considers themselves no longer to be a regional terrorist group but now a global terrorist group. that's really the key point that what al baghdadi was trying to do in western syria is to reconstitute his terrorist empire by striking targets in