ayman, back to you now. you covering the region, what is the capability of isis at this point at least if they did want to try to find a way to directly attack the united states? reporter: well, i think as colonel jacobs just said, there s definitely a real threat. there are two components, the u.s. homeland and the u.s. interests. the u.s. interest umbrella is much larger. and it could be struck at oil installatio installations, no shortage of targets that can be of interest to al qaeda-linked militants. the other components of this is we ve already seen some european fighters as well as american fighters appear on the battlefield inside syria. there s been already one american citizen who is confirmed involved in a suicide bombing in syria. the concern for u.s. intelligence officials are who is joining the fight, what kind
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that position, they ll come back and attack american interests. that may be an important point there. they haven t transitioned to just having the aspirations right now. they haven t transitioned to having that motivation to want to come after the united states. it s been stated in some places, if you will, but it s like they re busy with their primary goal happening in iraq. you re right. the primary role is to establish an islamic state in iraq and greater syria. it also covers kuwait, jordan, lebanon and, of course, israel as well. that s aspirational, clearly, they re a long way afrom that. but i think that s prime goal at the moment than to mount major attacks against the united states. something else you just said as well. so many are going now to iraq to join this group, to join this fight, to be a part of isis. how concerned are they to go there, and as you said end up going back. do we have the capabilities, the
about military action of any kind. exactly. you can t underestimate how much the democratic base, democrats in general would not want to go back into this country and send troops into this country. that s obviously on the president s mind. in addition, you have to remember where the law stands on this, right? it is the president s decision right now. he does not have to go according to reports our white house reporter, he does not have to go to congress for authorization to take military action in iraq, because the 2002 authorization still stands. so the buck really stops with him right now. jonathan, your piece i have in my hand, the crisis of leadership of no drama obama, and you bring up a point here that the president needs to work hard to convince the public that he doesn t want a reduced american role in the world just to reduce military role. in this daily beast story that i just wrote, my basic point is that there s this