when they attacked against charlie hebdo, they have a french background and something is happening, they re free radicalized. it is a very difficult economy situation and then again, completely radicalized in some mosque, go to training camps in syria, and then they came back. they don t see themselves as french, but they have a french passport. and the terrorists attack and that s the story of charlie hebd hebdo . now, something i just want to also tell you, you know, it seems to have been a really sophisticated attack, well prepared. and then something which is striking me. at first, and unfortunately, i have to say that as a fact, it was a band which was playing inside the bataclan, the musical, and sometimes the french people but tonight, it was an american band.
watching libya than syria and iraq because it was so much closer, because of the historical ties to that part of africa because of french participation with taking gaddafi. so it was a slightly different fight for them. but the larger picture, it doesn t really matter. it will matter some to investigators and counterterrorism officials, but to the grand war, the war of ideas, the war against terrorism, you know, more and more, it s less who this flies on but more interested in how the threat is really traveling and coming in a couple of years, is the u.s. worried about threats from the region or terrorists directed attacks that originate here in the united states or we ll find out if
that s true. but you bring up a good point. there s the military fight against isis, which is seeing in iraq and syria, which you see on the ground. air strikes, drone strikes. and then there s terrorism in cities. in western cities. these are two completely different threats, two completely different conflicts to deal with. i ve seen online a lot of criticisms of the obama administration and their level of willingness for military intervention. you know, shows they re leaving from behind, all the campaign lines. but 20 troops on the ground i don t think will affect what happens in paris today or even the aircraft on the ground. but we have to be careful not to conflate the two. what the military can do and should do or what the people want them to do versus this new type of terrorism shifting from the backfield to first europe and then eventually the big