uses. a whole assortment of them in iraq that go kennedy: don t forget syria syria. harris: i know from reading, they have already been feeling a lot of the sanctions. this just really puts the screws to it all. dan: it does, they have lost a lot of fighters in syria and now they are losing a lot of money that would go to support them. and the fighters who were in there, they are supposed to support the families, but the money is not there for that either. harris: you know it is interesting is that i look for the connection points with the iranian people, and if you are identifying with evidence who the bad actors are, you re basically saying these are the people who are causing you pain. it is not us, we are reacting. dan: they have a history of protesting in the square going back a decade ago, the green movement was vocal and on the street. and it is clear to the iranian people that they can turn the wrath towards the corrupt leaders and away from us. we are ready for neg
europe and elsewhere, and clearly they were right. not merely europe. yemen and jordan have both experienced terrorist attacks in the last week. obviously the west has to be on alert. the german situation raises the questions of if, in fact, some of these western societies are adequately sensitive to the nature of the attack. well, and i think that in germany in particular, jason, you have a couple of problems. when is the migration issue. angela merkel, the chancellor brought in a million refugees from north africa and syria. a your ago two years ago, and some of those terrorists seem to have slipped in. and then you also have the problem of the germans don t do very well from all reports on surveillance, and intelligence. so far germany had avoided the fate of france and brussels and some other places. but not this time. and this was the softest of soft targets. a christmas marketplace visited
of freddie gray. gray was a prisoner who was being transported in a police van when he suffered a spinal injury that was fatal. it helped cause the riots. she indicted these officers on outrageous charges and made statements at a press conference that you d kind of hear at an al sharpton rally. this year she her comeuppance when a judge threw out some of the charges against the first officers. then she was forced to abandon the other ones, and she still blames everyone but herself. my miss of the year is the tragedy, the catastrophe of aleppo, russia, syria, the syrian regime are laying siege to that city. now they seem to have won a victory in aleppo, but at tremendous human cost. tens of thousands of people dead. the syrian civil war continues. it s one of the great nightmares maybe of this whole century, and the united states stood by and did almost nothing about it. president obama said he didn t have a solution. this is what happens aleppo is what happens when the united
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
relative to the size of the country. but in the end, really, this is something that is going to have to be fought in the middle east. the wins of isis or the potential or the perception that isis is winning is very empowering for terrorists in the west, and i think that s what germany and the u.s. have to work on is action in the middle east. and on that point, the ankara murder, that s really the one consequence of syria. obviously the terrorist is responsible, but germany has not done very much at all to help us and help in syria or the middle east, because they just don t want to participate in any military operation. i think further to mary s point, what we re seeing in europe is the failure of middle eastern policy. even the most generous country cannot take everyone from all the disruptions there. and we need a reasonable level