scooch less. they lost tikrit which was a big city. saddam hussein s hometown. an important strategic loss for them. they also lost some territory in northern iraq. when it comes to the idea of isis, isis more than anything else is an idea. a terrible idea it might be, but it is idea. as an idea, they ve actually grown. they ve shown all the way from san bernardino, california, to paris, france, to the sinai in egypt, to beirut in lebanon, they are attracting people no longer have to travel to syria or to iraq in order to join up and commit mayhem there. they re able to commit mayhem around the world. if you like, they are offshoring this idea, they are offshoring terrorism in a way that brings it closer to all of us. in that way, you would say
rhetoric over so long, while he s been out there, he s trying to really be the calmer in chief say, look, we have a plan, we have a coalition, we ve had over 8,000 air strikes militarily, but don t blow this out of proportion anymore. which really reflects his entire thinking of the use of force, of the use of the military and the ability to fight to victory somehow against isis, against ideology. there s a lot more to come. i i m very curious to see what happens when obama gets back, when this momentum toward a global coalition starts to build, what type of political change and leadership let s talk about these attacks though of just in the last month or so from turkey, from the peace march, to beirut, to. this is an extension of isis arm that we really haven t seen before. does it then deserve a new strategy and a response to it? well, that s what we want to
country is what, colonel? well, you know, modern science and chemistry doesn t match the philosophies and religious beliefs the middle ages, it just doesn t but there s this, call this mad rage against things western even as terrorists are welcome willing to use our technologies. but bill, i have to say two things. i don t believe this young man was target of a robbery type crime because he was jogging. second i have no doubt this was us lamists. maybe i will be proved wrong but i would be shocked if it was anybody else. your viewers should know, our viewers should know, the tradition in which this young man followed goes back to the 19th century. heroic americans, beginning with missionaries spreading out to secular educators we ve been going for almost two centuries to the middle east, to jerusalem, to beirut, to cairo, to libya to try to help these
outer circle. first to beirut with suicide bombers outside the iranian embassy killing 23 injuring nearly 150 people. i asked nick payton walsh why the embassy was the target. reporter: erin, i m standing just down the road from where those two blasts detonated about 9:00 this morning outside the iranian embassy. we re now hear from the will be knees army. there were two suicide bombers one on a scooter the other on a jeep detonating those devies. guards opened fire on them as the approached the gates. i m standing in a hezbollah stronghold and the group that claimed responsibility made it quite clear the were targeting the iranian embassy and trying to get hezbollah to stop assisting in the syrian conflict. but many concerned the tactics today a suicide bombing people have not seen at all for decades here in lebanon and this is another sign the violence in syria is spilling over into lib none. erin? thank very much to nick. i want to go to tokyo now where
that believability to the american public. sean: before i let you go, you got in a little conflict with senator john mccain and recent trip to syria. there is a photograph taken of him with two men who according to beirut news reports that were involved in kidnapping of a group of people from lebanon. your concern about having involvement in syria, i share your concerns because it reminds me of egypt. what are your concerns here? here is my point. i never mentioned his name. my point it s difficult to tell friends from both, even in afghanistan we ve been there ten years and much more stable. we have soldiers in the afghan army who are allies who shoot our soldiers in the back. we are going into syria and going to be allied with