can you assess that? whether we are at the end of the going or the beginning of the under i will not tell you because we face a very, very brutal terrorist enemy. here is the difference: we are using missile dense to protect our civilians and they are using their civilians to protect their missiles. that is the difference. they are embedding the rockets, terrorist rockets, trying to kill as many as they can and they are not succeeding because of two reasons: one we have developed an incredible missile defense system which is historic development in the hit of defensive warfare with the help of the united states and i thank the american people and rebound, the united states congress for helping us fund this amazing development. the other reason we are succeeding, and you have to understand some of the rockets piece through the shield and the
can you give us an assessment of that? well, whether we re at the beginning of the end or end of the beginning, i m not going to tell you right now, because we face a very brutal terrorist enemy. i mean, here s the difference between us. we are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they re using their civilians to protect their missiles. that s basically the difference. they re embedding these rockets that they re firing wholesale into our cities, terrorist rockets, trying to kill as many as they can. they re not succeeded because of two reasons. one is because we ve developed this incredible missile defense system, which i think is a stark development in the history of defensive warfare, with u.s. help, and i want to thank the american people, president obama, the u.s. congress, for helping us fund this amazing development, but the other reason we re succeeding, you
the group, and it reads like a corporate annual report on all of the military activities in iraq since 2012. it breaks down iraq into seven areas of responsibility. the terror group looks like it has learned how to clear, hold and build a key doctrine of the u.s. insurgency, and jessica lewis has looked at it for the institute of war. these are planned and coordinated offenses that are extremely well executed and we have to think of more in terms of how the disrupt the strategy as if they were a conventional enemy and not a terrorist enemy who can execute spectacular attacks. last year, isis conducted 1,88 1,883s as is nations, and had 438 suicide attacks and of 2013, isis claims to have 15,000
to hotels on sunday and monday, killing 48 people. witnesses reported some were murdered because they could not answer basic questions about islam. last week saw sustained and destructive attacks by militants in claspy, which killed close to 40 people and triggered the first american drone strikes. and the kidnapping of nearly 300 school girls by boko haram. america s top diplomat seemed that the terrorist enemy appears emboldined of late. they are trying to take advantage of these opportunities, and it s hard to built governance in the middle of that. but we are working in every single one of those places step by step. i would point you to president obama s speech a couple of weeks ago where he rolled out a plan for $5 billion counterterrorism fund. clearly we are taking steps to address the threat. in iraq, where islamist
well, a number of robeeasons. he s been read his rights, his right to remain silent. he is somebody we very much should have been able to interrogate thoroughly. he s been living in iran. al qaeda has an agreement with ir iran. al qaeda has what s called by the administration a facilitation network in iran. we needed to know from him exactly what are the relationships between al qaeda, our terrorist enemy, and iran, the leading sponsor of trim in the world. we may never find this out from him now. secondly, it s very important to say this. we are now giving him every right that an american citizen has under the constitution. every right. we are treating an unlawful combatant, not just an enemy combatant, an unlawful combatant, to the rights you d give to somebody accused of cheating on his taxes. we re going back to the pre- 9/11 civilian justice and criminal justice model for what is a war. al qaeda declared war on the united states, and the congress authorized the use of military