state. but the islamic state gets defeated the ideology this utopia might like it s run its course in the same way that al qaeda psych hello run its course. this does not mean we re not going to witness some attacks by lone wolves and deluded individuals who still can be radicalized by this islamist ideology of radicalism. certainly hope you are right, professor gerges. the fact authorities will be able to debrief and analyze this man and find out exactly how that islamic cancer was able to spread. that could be helpful maybe for prevention further on. fawaz gerges, contemporary middle east studies here at the london school of economics. thank you, sir. thank you. now, three passports, fake names, and millions of dollars. that helps explain why former
extre extreme 1re9ing program. being politically correct is fine but not for this. we should note the suspect is originally from uzbekistan, a country that has not been included on the president s travel ban. we re joined by fawaz gerges, author of isis: a history. he s live in london. good morning. at this point they re calling this an act of terror. they have a suspect here who is alive. remarkable that they will be able to talk to him and find out how he was radicalized, where he was radicalized and where his intention was. talk to us professor about this new trend of using vehicles as a weapon in these lone wolf attacks. you re sfwlult correct. i think the good junnews is he still alive. so the authorities will be able to debrief him. they ll be able to talk to him,
knives, pellet weapons, their hands, cars. just in the past few days isis outlets, isis magazines, have directly and specifically called on their followers to use cars and trucks and knives. the good news, i know it s very tragic. i know it s very insidious, very sad, what happened in new york yesterday. i mean, i lived most of my life in new york. and i know the feeling now. but the reality is the suspect did not have any advanced weapons. he did not have guns. he did not have partners. and this tells you that basically this is a lone wolf, this is an individual most probably inspired and motivated by the deadly ideology of isis. we know, professor gerges, that he is originally from uzbekistan, he came to this country several years ago on a diversity lottery, diversity visa, which is part of a lottery
regional war by proxy and global war by proxy. when president trump said yesterday he called on civilized nations to end the blood bath inside syria, this is a vacuous statement. the obama administration invested tremendous diplomatic and political capital in order to resolve the conflict and it has failed. what are the ideas? what is the strategy, the political strategy of the trump administration? there is no strategy to really be seen at this particular moment. i can t say we have any clearer of an answer this evening even though we had these air strikes. professor gerges, good to have you with us this morning. i m ayman mohyeldin. that will do it for me. we ll be right back.
many people are deeply skeptical about the case for war. in particular, many people are saying, look, i mean the american public is not convinced and u.s. congress have not convinced and there was a sigh of relief all over the world. i want to tell you in london and paris and middle east and everywhere that basically now we are back to diplomacy and back to high politics. i know it s difficult. i know it s complex and very complicated but the reality is hopefully within the next few days or weeks we ll see a way out of this. very complicated. professor gerges, thank you for your insight. up next, did congress manage to get itself off the hook? we ll dig into that angle of the syria crisis and go through the other top stories of the day and news. [announcer] there s no hiding the goodness of the latest from beneful baked delights. new heartfuls are made with real bacon.