international law, taking the oil. can you believe that? wait a minute, can you believe that? who are the critics that say that? fools. i don t call them critics, i call them fools. let me talk about your words. excuse me. we should have taken the oil and if we took the oil you would haven t isis and we would have had wealth. my understanding is about 5,000 u.s. service members embedded with the iraqi army fighting isis. do you believe it tangibly increases the risk to them to have the president of the united states say something like that? yeah and here s something chris, i don t say this lightly, i think isis was absolutely thrilled to hear those words come from washington because it frankly validates the narrative, the propaganda they re trying to spread around the middle east and they re very good at it, they use social media, they use innovaive propaganda techniques and for us to hand them on a silver platter the notion that america is there to steal the oil from the peo
i think isis was absolutely thrilled to hear those words come from washington because it frankly validates the narrative, the propaganda they re trying to spread around the middle east and they re very good at it, they use social media, they use innovative propaganda techniques and for us to hand them on a silver platter the notion that america is there to steal the oil from the people of the middle east, that s a big win. the former u.s. assistant to the secretary of defense said trump s careless words bind his own military s hands. the fear is that once the islamic state is defeated, they will be tempted to turn their attention to u.s. and coalition forces in iraq. is there a way for the president to declare unequivocally this is not something the u.s. is going to do and have it be believed? well i think it will be important for general mattis, secretary of defense mattis, to make clear in his initial engagements with his counterparts both in europe,
capacity. that is not putting anyone on notice. no, it s not putting anyone on notice. and more importantly, and i try to make this point every time i talk about isis, isis is the fifth generation of al qaeda. we have already been struck by people who were followers of this ideology. what you just now have is you just now have a younger, faster generation, with much more sophisticated propaganda techniques, and who have absolutely no qualms about operating as a tight, tactical team, and using whatever weapons that they have in hand to create mayhem. and right now, they ve moved their battle space into europe. it has yet to come to the united states. but that doesn t mean it s not going to happen. but don t wait for a specific threat. the threat is emerging as it stands. all right. malcolm mance, thank you very much. appreciate it. it s my pleasure. last night in the paris suburb of saint-denis, at about 4:30 a.m. local time, special police forces and soldiers
last 20 months, at least, two years, put out a string of propaganda. there was a picture of the white house at one point. there was someone speaking english, saying we re coming for you, barack obama. i mean, a huge part of what they are trying to do right now is create this sense, right, of this kind of unstoppable force across the world and these videos are intended to make americans scared. absolutely. everything they do, from the way they do their terrific terroristic combat, which we call terror shock value, tsv, by beheading their victim base and attacking in an asymmetric fashion in a way you wouldn t expect it. and they have the kaft to maximize that effect by using these advanced modern propaganda techniques, turning them around very quickly in very slick packages and getting them into the mainstream media and then you, again, you multiply the terror effect. and the media is a willing host for that. the media is a willing host? yes, absolutely. as a matter of fact, that
maximize that effect by using these advanced modern propaganda techniques, turning them around very quickly in very slick packages and getting them into the mainstream media and then you, again, you multiply the terror effect. and the media is a willing host for that. the media is a willing host? yes, absolutely. as a matter of fact, that video was really not intended towards the french populous. if you noticed that there was only one french speaker inside it. and everyone else was an arab speaker. they showed a couple of videos, clips of a former french soldier doing tactical training. but, for the most part, it was intended for the consumption of the international news media. and the fact that they used a piece of stock footage, video footage, and, you know, in a scenario that was oriented towards the people of france, and it happened to be times square, doesn t necessarily mean that they re coming after the united states. their ideology is so virulent, they will come and strike