From the region. That is not what i am hearing from the people. We have seen isis encroach in india as well. Indian officials have been monitoring that carefully trying to garner recruitment and establish some kind of presence there. I think for lawmakers as well as those in the Academic Field the focus is right now on iraq and syria, and north africa, but we should not forget south asia is going to play an enormous role, and it also plays an enormous role in the eschatology, because it looks at the Islamic State the belief. If you look at the hadid, and those are the writings of mohammed, and all one of the things he focuses are the ones on the end times. That is his main focus. Part of the final batter is a per cursor precursor thatll that takes place in south asia. We are not going to get the final battle until the precursor battle actually happens. However that happens, it is definitely in baghdadis plants, and something i think should not be a ignored and an area we should Pay Att
Afghanistan, a taliban leader basically issued a letter asking them to back off. I think isis realizes it cannot replace the taliban as a major fighting force in afghanistan right now. The taliban is too established in the region. But, will they try to make common cause with the taliban . I think this is what sara was getting at. Will we see a merging together of the two . This would be very dangerous for the u. S. If the speakers could address that issue, because i think what we heard from dr. Gorka was that isis is the graduate level. But does this hold up when youre looking at afghanistan . The taliban has been able to continue to fight there after 14 years. The taliban still has sway in that region. I dont think it will be so easy for isis to make inroads despite it trying. If you look at how the idea of peace talks plays into this just on tuesday, the taliban engaged in peace talks with the afghan leadership in pakistan. This is quite significant. But what is their calculation . B
Threat. This is far more dangerous than al qaeda for four reasons. Number one it is its own selfgenerated fully fledged transnational insurgency. Al qaeda, in all the places where it existed in the last 14 years, was a parasitic terrorist organization that attached it self to indigenous insurgencies, whether it was alshabab in somalia or whether it was the taliban in afghanistan, it did not generate its own mass base of mobilization as a true mooist insurgency should or one that follows maos rule book for mobilization. Isis is different. Isis is its own selfgenerated insurgency. And of course the big difference between a terrorist group and an insurgency is that an insurgency holds territory in daylight. And this we know now, isis holds more territory than the territorial expanse of the united kingdom. It is a graduate threat. More importantly, what we dont talk about, it is the worlds first transnational insurgency. Not Just International all insurgencies are to a lesser or greater ex
I predict that about 20 of people will take advantage of that. If that is true, then that would automatically stabilize the system which now gives us time to begin to gradually increase the age of retirement. Remembering, when we put that system into place, the average age of death with 63. Now, we are looking at 80. We have not made any adjustments. It is unfair to make adjustments, i believe, to people who are 55 years or older because they dont have enough time to do it needs to be done. Or people who are younger than that, i think there is time. It is a gradual adjustment. Many of the people i have talked to have said we dont have to do anything radical like they did in italy. The move to their age up tremendously and cut the benefits by 40 in order to get back in line. The longer we wait, the more drastic the need will be to do it. We do it very gradually over the course of about 25 or 30 years and we can sustain the system. Not only that, but remember, once we have intelligent pe
Airport 2. 96 inches of rain today. Look at these tam age reports pottstown pennsylvania cars were stalled in high the water, bethlehem pa water reported up to the car doors northfield new jersey closed roads stranded in Absecon Margate vent are in avenue was closed due to flooding, as we head through the evening, what to expect a few additional showers and storms. Thinks last of it. Certainly worst is over but still downpours and last thing that we need another round of heavy rain on top of these areas already been dealing with flooding and saturated ground all day poor drainage flooding will continue and slow travel, low visibility in anyone of these storms will slow you down on area roadways. You can see we have another round of rain with hard hit areas, these showers and storms could intensify before finally before nine or 10 00 we will see these storms moving out skies will clear and then we have much Better Weather, on the way for tomorrow, still warm, steamy outside right now bu