does that they don t obsess over. like stalkers. especially since the things that he does has improved everyone s lives, there was no doubt about that. isis is dead, ms-13 is being dealt with and everyone has mort money in their pockets. the job economy is at historic lows, and there is no one who hasn t benefited from this, except of course isis and ms-13. what is it about him? he s everything that they thought couldn t exist. they had this idea and they were told certain things by their leadership of how it was going to be, and as a result since everyone thought it was going to be a certain way and they were promised certain things, donald trump represents the facp that the future maybe isn t controlled by them, that there is a different thing that can happen in that can be encouraged by democratic leadership to see this in a personal way, exclusively in an emotional way and in the most extreme fashion appealing to the french. i can tell you, and i ve said
but once they are governing in their medieval bar barrous manner, the allure fades, the disenchantment builds and with it ever increasing repression. remember, no one has ever voted isis into power anywhere. they slaughtered their way to victory. is isis a threat to the west? the group s leaders declare that it is everyday. but until recently their ambitions appeared to be mostly centered on their arab enemies, on building a caliphate in iraq and syria. in recent months with the attacks against russia and turkey and france clearly isis has expanded its ambitions and its operations. they understand, of course, that to be terror group number one, they must battle the country that is the world s number-one power, america. they seek that confrontation and hope that the united states would come to the middle east and fight them on their terms.
the leader of isis and yes, he was in american custody during the iraq war. al baghdadi has shown his face publicly once, last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. but back when the u.s. had him under lock and key, he was seen as, believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. the americans seemed to see him as somebody who could keep the prison quiet. 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. he wasn t considered from everything we know now a high level detain ee. he was allowed to lead prayers and allowed to give religious lessons. the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on
the day before 9/11, he landed in england to recruit for the group, which in some ways was a forerunner to isis. it s the first islamist organization responsible for popularizing the notion of resurrecting the so-called islamic state. his caliphate so-called islamic state is what he has been dreaming of since 1953. in the months after 9/11, nawaz was arrested. in an egyptian jail with what he calls the cream of the crop of jihadists, he was thrilled at first about all he could learn from them. but then he had a jailhouse revelation. living so close with them for four years in prison, i came to the conclusion that if these guys, any of them, ever got to power and ever declared this so-called caliphate, it would be
the strategy will fail yet get. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. even former top officials in the obama administration had tough words. it s more than just an intelligence failure, it s a policy failure as well. of course the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most, american boots on the ground. united states now has 3,500 military advisers in iraq helping the iraqi government take on isis. but the biggest intelligence failure and policy failure and underestimation was not of the strength of the self-styled islamic state but of the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014, when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army