ideology of communism. syria, iraq, afghanistan, those are the battlefields of this modern, but i think is going to be a generational war, to undermine that ideology because we are dealing with brainwashing and religion, just as it took those other battlefields and 60, 70 years to defeat the ideology of communism. that is really what we are looking at. what is victory look like? what it looks like is when you have women marching in tehran and riyadh and damascus and where women thrive in civil society and women thrive in politics. you don t see an extremist problem. that is what we are dealing with. we are in a global war against islamic extremism. these are just but a series of battlefields that we have two win. jason: chris, what is victory? when you are talking to a 20-year-old who is going into battle, leaving his loved ones, his family behind, to go serve the united states overseas, how do you explain to that young soldier or whoever it might be and his family, what is victory a
syria, iraq, afghanistan, those are the battlefields of this modern, but i think is going to be a generational war, to undermine that ideology because we are dealing with brainwashing and religion, just as it took those other battlefields and 60, 70 years to defeat the ideology of communism. that is really what we are looking at. what is victory look like? what it looks like is when you have women marching in tehran and riyadh and damascus and where women thrive in civil society and women thrive in politics. you don t see an extremist problem. that is what we are dealing with. we are in a global war against islamic extremism. these are just but a series of battlefields that we have two win. jason: chris, what is victory? when you are talking to a 20-year-old who is going into battle, leaving his loved ones, his family behind, to go serve the united states overseas, how do you explain to that young soldier or whoever it might be and his family, what is victory and what when do you g
lot of cooperation, yes. and every single country that is dealing with own extremist problem is certainly going to continue to pursue those efforts. of course the overriding concerns in this is this deck lar ration gives, it kills any legitimacy that the united states may have still continued to maintain throughout the region. and it really goes to the very core perspective towards america and towards the west. it s already being viewed as being bias towards israel. many extremist organizations do falsely or to a certain degree exploit the palestine cause as a recruitment tool so that is of course another concern that exists out there. all right. thank you very much. i do want to get further perspective from deputy national
after these groups in their own right. trade to andrew come as far as pfizer and afghanistan, we know that the surge worked. we know that these pinprick attacks by jihadist started to stop as a result of the surge. what would a search look like in this regard? i think he saw little bit of that after the manchester attack of the british government put the army on the street to soft target that looks vulnerable. also, it is important to point out in afghanistan the surge didn t really work. the violence it down for a time but then the troops came home and there is still an extremist problem there. conservation of resources and determination is the fight for the long haul is the most thing. we need to look at what we are spending in how we are prepared to do that for the long run. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. a lot of expertise. the truth review really appreciate that.
much work to be done. that means honestly confronting the crisis of islamic extremism and the islamists and islamic terror of all kinds. we must stop what they re doing to inspire because they do nothing to inspire but kill. reporter: there was no sign of dissent among the 55 presidents, prime ministers, amirs and kings gathered in the room. but at a late forum, the emirate foreign minister was critical of european nations saying they couldn t point the finger at the middle east and say the extremist problem is in the middle east, that they in europe have a problem that they need to deal with that problem, that if they don t deal with it, then there will be more extremists coming from europe than the middle east. very strong language. not saying that the united states was at fault, but pointing the finger at europe. this message, this idea that