you know, al baghdad dee his position is fortified with the withdrawal or pull out of u.s. troops? not only may it take the pressure off, but it may also improve isis morale. they may be able to spin this as them pushing the americans out or as a god given deliverance, and that could be for the global jihadi movement as a whole. isis also has a growing is significant presence in other parts of the world, notably in afghanistan. they appear to be trying to rebuild an international attack capability and transfer it over to afghanistan. we ve seen a number of plots in europe, which have been tied back to isis in afghanistan in recent months. so all of this very, very concerning. i can say that officials, counter terrorism officials and others in europe are absolutely alarmed by this development. they believe that it was very necessary to finish off isis but
muslim civilians this has deeply angered the global jihadi movement and massively energized the global jihadi movement. according to vladimir putin up to 7,000 russian nationals, people from the former soviet bloc countries have traveled to syria even iraq, joined groups like isis and the worry is they are coming back into russia to launch attacks particularly concerned about people from the caucuses region of russia joining groups like isis, they ve emerged as some of the fiercest fighters in isis, and they were responsible the fighters from the russian caucuses for the istanbul airport attack last summer so concern of a new wave of terrorism now heading russia is blowback for their intervention in syria. when is the last time, paul, we saw a terrorist attack akin to we don t know if this is one, we don t know if it s really ours but what would history show us in terms of the attacks that russia has faced again you mentioned the threat from the
intervention in aleppo is going to super charge the global jihadi movement. it s going to radicalize people in syria. it s going to radicalize people across the sunni world. and it s going to play into the hands of isis and al qaeda recruiters who are going to make the argument that the sunnis are under attack by some alleged global conspiracy. it s also going to play into the hands of those who would want to say that the united states is somehow complicit in some of this because of the warming relations between russia and the united states, sort of the jihadis in their attempts to try and lump in this sort of global conspiracy against islam. so we re entering a very dangerous period indeed, where this brutal crackdown against the rebels in aleppo is really going to energize the global jihadi movement. it s going to make the sectarian problems so much worse in the
because if this guy could do it, if a little 4-year-old kid is there, if the bouncy castle salesman is there, that means anybody. it seems as if isis is one step ahead of the united states. they come out with these new things all the time. right now our efforts are to have air strikes. is that enough? i don t think so. what they re showing is that whatever happens, as you say we re one step behind, but it says this is a global jihadi movement. we can dismiss it and laugh at it. that s their goal. just by merely destroying icy s isis, i don t think we can, they move. we got them in i rack. they moved to syria. they re going to go to libya. they re going to go back to afghanistan. we need to take a big step back and say how did we defeat
everything starts from the top down. remember, the day before the san bernardino attack on the day of, we had the president say that we contained isis. we had the secretary kerry say isis is on the run and we re winning. there s the reality of the threat, the jihadists are here and want to kill american citizens and there s an administration and the people beneath them who are trying to spin a narrative that s just business as usual. when you are spinning this narrative, basically putting that out there. is it just complete ignorance about the social media realities we live with today in this world of 2015 and the fact that so many people are tech savvy? i think we have a legacy s r structure that s twentieth se h century. we are not fighting the soviet or nazis, it s a global jihadi