ten years later, fallujah falls back into the hands of an enemy. this time it s isis. just a few days after fallujah fell, the president talked about the threat from the terror group in an interview with the new yorker magazine. he said, the analogy we use around here sometimes. and i think is accurate, is if a jv team puts on lakers uniforms, that doesn t make them kobe bryant. i was disappointed. i was disappointed that he said that. i don t think he was well served. the need for intelligence surveillance. lieutenant general michael flynn had a front-row seat to the rise of isis. he led the defense intelligence agency until late last year. we failed to understand the enemy that we faced. flynn says intelligence officials had warned the administration that isis was
in just a moment, isis and the white house, the story of what we knew about the terror group and when we knew it. we failed to understand the enemy that we faced. it s the final countdown! the final countdown! if you re the band europe, you love a final countdown. it s what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it s what you do. this holiday season, gewhat s in the trunk? nothing.
other muslims, seen as heretics, tactics that today sound hauntingly familiar. with a $25 million price on his head, there is no one the u.s. wants to capture or kill more than zarqawi. the cia had been tracking his every move. in june of 2006 u.s. forces killed him with two 500-pound bombs. tonight the most wanted terrorist in iraq is killed in a massive united states air strike. zarqawi. zarqawi, he said, was eliminated. zarqawi s death is a severe blow to al qaeda. but as it turned out, the movement zarqawi began would survive that blow. when we come back, the rise of the leader of isis. he wasn t considered from everything that we know now, a high-level detainee. inside an american prison.
they think it s the time of their life. they think that they are part of a historical event. changing the whole middle east. among them were americans. i met many americans. i met many germans and french people and english people, but many americans. guys from new jersey. there were also american weapons. soldiers carry them like a badge of honor, even the children. how old are you? these child soldiers, 12 and 13 years old, now go to what isis calls schools. they start a new school system, which i found is completely wrong, completely crazy. but it s a system. isis officials trotted out a few prisoners for todenhofer to talk to.
and, of course, isis also manipulates us, television news. they put their videos online, we put them on television. and in a bizarre twist, isis turns around and makes clever use of what it sees on tv. this video is called victory in kobani. it glorifies the isis capture of that syrian city, while mocking president obama and other western leaders. air power, alone, first of all, there s no military solution to isil. i have a military-only solution. okay? the angry rhetoric of cable news fits right into their script. even with troops on the ground, we have proven we cannot defeat these people. we are so incompetent in terms of conducting a foreign policy, in terms of conducting military operation. cnn makes an occasional appearance. into that city of kobani. but fox news is a favorite of