threat. should we be looking for when we interviewing them. i am not only. but we are doing that as voters. one thing the president said, there is no military solution to the issue. what do you think about that? there is no purely military solution, but there is no solution that doesn t have a military component to it. if this is the highest priority of the next president. that means all parts of the government need to work together saying this is what we ll do. we ll defeat jihaddism. like the cold war, we had a war of ideas and economic warfare and strong military and couldn t be challenged and supported our proxies who are willing to fight on the grown. there is a military component and we have to understand that this is the highest priority of the u.s. government if we do this. certainly during world war ii president roosevelt and
much is they don t have a single enemy. everyone who is not them is their enemy. anyone who does not believe what they believe is an apostate and deserves to die. indeed. and i think one of the things they were trying to do here, hitting targets, soft targets in a mixed neighborhood like this, was they knew they would be killing muslims, they knew they would be killing people, muslims who were living like parisians, the worst kind of enemy for them. look, this is a truly evil group that is exclusive, that says if you don t believe as we do, we will kill you, we will enslave you, we will rape your women, we will do all these medieval things, and isn t this fun? we ll be just like in the video games, because it s all very inspiring, like world of isis war cra w warcraft to young people in a various marginal environment. they are waging a war of ideas, but not ideology. it s a war of video game ideas,
watching libya than syria and iraq because it was so much closer, because of the historical ties to that part of africa because of french participation with taking gaddafi. so it was a slightly different fight for them. but the larger picture, it doesn t really matter. it will matter some to investigators and counterterrorism officials, but to the grand war, the war of ideas, the war against terrorism, you know, more and more, it s less who this flies on but more interested in how the threat is really traveling and coming in a couple of years, is the u.s. worried about threats from the region or terrorists directed attacks that originate here in the united states or we ll find out if
sussman campaign director for center of american progress action fund who worked on president obama s 2008 campaign. mary catherine ham, from hotair.com. author of end of discussion. and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. emily, emily he you worked on his first campaign, if he was running again in 2016 would you volunteer again? i would go right back in. i think a lot of the country would be there with him. however you feel about the president i think there is no question he is winning the war of ideas and winning the rhetoric. can diets from both sides of the aisle are starting to use, this big populist moment which the president capitalized from the beginning that has been the core of his economic begin today. even republican candidates are using phrases like income inequality wage stagnation. everybody is using these ideas. i think the question for 2016 is going to be, do people believe candidates have policy that back this up.
we have tons of plans, tons of capability that again are sitting on the sidelines. as you recognize, this is a war of ideas. you saw the youth in nazi-like fashion go out and execute people in this ancient roman coliseum if you will. they re trying to establish the idea that they re here and society to be dealt with. we re not taking it seriously. colonel, people are thinking home hope is on the way. is he taking over the joint chief of staff? nominate fod replace general dempsey. now general dunford s name is fighting joe. i would like to believe that s what his attitude might be. i don t know that. i would like to believe it. i would like to believe there s a change of strategy. unfortunately for us brian, we ll see more of the same over the summer. it s down to president obama. president obama has all these options. is he choosing not to execute. bottom line is people shouldn t say it s their problem