Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
Also we will come after you and find you. U. S. Special forces kill isis top leader in a Nighttime Raid in syria. It raises the question just how strong is isis today . How much of a threat does it pose . Fawaz gerges will join me. Finally, from cars to milk to housing and more, we are paying more than we were a year ago for so many items. Inflation is to blame for certain, but just how bad is it . I will do a deep dive that might surprise you. But first, here is my take. Its a tale of two olympics. Remember the 2008 beijing games . China was dazzling the world with its economic prowess and technological sophistication, determined to impress the world with its soft power. Praise filled the headlines in countries like australia, the United Kingdom and the u. S. The Sydney Morning Herald said that the Opening Ceremony was a perfect ten. Londons Evening Standard described the event as the beginning of chinas new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved by much of the leadership
into mountains of grievances by sunni communities. let me give your viewers a glance a glimpse of what we re talking about. you still have tens of thousands of sunnis in iraq who are treated like criminals because isis functioned within their own communities, they are placed in detention camps, they are excluded, they are treated like basically criminals. they are collectively punished. so isis, even though it lost the khalifa, the territorial khalifa in 2017 in iraq, it has been able to find a refuge within these sunni communities in iraq. in fact, your question is so important because there is a growing evidence now that isis or the islamic state has been able to renew its ranks with younger recruits from members of families who have had ties to the islamic state, and also members internally excluded and angry sunnis.
angry sunnis. this is in iraq. in syria the kurdish-led militias who basically control the prisons where you have thousands of islamic state fighters and tens of thousands family members have not really been able to build the trust with the local communities, mainly local arab and sunni communities in northeastern syria. so isis this insurgency has been able to really find a refuge and the question is how do you address the grievances? how do you deal with punishing poverty? how do you provide security and, fareed, look, the united states is missing in action. really the american foreign policy team is missing in action. it has not invested much let me ask you, fawaz, about on that issue, you wrote a very prescient piece in foreign policy in august of 2021 as the taliban was taking control of
moment. let s start over. reporter: let s talk about the worst, best and most likely scenarios. we ll talk about this area where i.s.i.s. has been able to seize a lot of territory, and day by day, closer and closer to baghdad, bringing them within about 50 miles of the city here. worst-case scenario, this continues, and importantly sunnis, who have been supporting them already because they re angry at the shy i d government here, so the 800 or so fighters are multiplied by millions of angry sunnis who in fact keep moving to topple the government in baghdad. best-care scenario the iraqi army responds well, they surround the city as they re already trying to do. they re able to fend off this attack and just as importantly the i.s.i.s. fightersing become