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where it is today and it becomes a new reality in terms of not trying to destroy it, but accepting it for its presence in those two countries, iraq and syria? i certainly hope not. for the people of iraq and syria, this is a nightmare, but this is a long fight, one that s going to take a significant amount of time. clearly the direct threat to americans from the propaganda it is significant. the territory gain by isis that will be hard to take back. it s going to take real effort and partnership with forces on the ground in addition to the ongoing air strikes. but it will take time. we heard the fbi director make reference to the fact that isis uses social media and reaches you everywhere. you follow this very closely. what efforts are there underway now to try to stop that social media recruitment? that our efforts on
but don t know quite what to do and that s the part we re all very uneasy about. just to be precise, fareed i m sure you ll agree, not just young men. some young women out there who are inspired and lured into this terror organization as well? it is young women as well as you know wolf the vast majority of people who are inspired by this unfortunately tend to be young, alienated muslim men, particularly in western societies where they feel in some way or the other that they don t have a cause or community of a sense of belonging, an develop these very violent pathological views. so why are they so good at this social media recruitment if you will and the u.s. which invented all this social media stuff, not apparently as successful? part of it i think is generational. i think a lot of the people involved in isis have grown up on all this stuff. just as, you know, let s be
that they come from. they re mostly men, which isn t surprising, but an unprecedented number of women. large age range. but a quarter of them are teenagers. so this wide diversity makes it very difficult to find who to communicate with and engage in a single strategy. you know, we keep hearing that so many of these young people that recruit online, on social media, that phrase is tossed around so casually, it makes it seem as if something is easy and you would think that it might be possible to stop it. why is it so difficult for counterterrorism people to get in the way of that communication, the social media recruitment? well, to begin with, i think we should definitely recognize that law enforcement has been doing a pretty good job of this. there has been only one attack by a returning foreign fighter in the entire west or one