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wbr id= wbr3000 /> fighting that one group. evenly if isis were defeated tomorrow, would that stop the next lone wolf jihadi in new york or paris or london? the enemy is in fact radical islam, an ideology that has spread over the last four decades for a variety of reasons and now infects alienated young men and women across the muslim world. the fight at its core must be against the ideology itself. that can only be done by muslims. they alone can purge their faith of this extremism. after a slow start, there are now several important efforts under way, more than people realize. the west can help by encouraging these forces of reform. allying with them at partnering with efforts to modernize these societies. but that is much less satisfying than hurling and calling for bans on muslims and advocating /b> ....
The security council s finance ministers met. they were there to come up with pla plan to fight isis economically, cut off its funding. joining me now are secretary lew and his counterpart, george osbourne. explain why this is so important. it sounds grand and everyone is against isis, but what will it specifically do that will be effective now? fareed, yesterday s meeting was historic both because it was the first time finance ministers met, but it also is to consider a resolution jointly sponsored by the united states and russia to bring the world together to make a very strong statement that we re not going to allow isil to continue to fund itself the way it has been. we are going to work together to shut down formal and informal means of financing as best we can. and it gave us more tools to do that. we have made progress. we are working hard as the united states to make sure that the oil revenue is slowed down ....
In fact, obama has often spoken about the problems of extremism in islam. here he is in his 2014 speech to the u.n. general assembly which focused significantly on that topic. it is time for the world, especially in muslim communities, to explicitly, forcefully and consistently reject the ideology of organizations like al qaeda and isil. today it is violence within muslim communities that has become the source of so much human misery. in his speech after the san bernardino shootings, obama again made some of these points, leading the late night comics seth meyers to offer this quip. so he used the words radical islam in terrorism. he just didn t use them in the right order which would be a problem if it was a spell and he was harry potter, but he s not so it isn t. obama and clinton have chosen ....
By striking at their oil infrastructure, but there s also trump keeps saying we should be bombing their oil fields. i assume the answer to that is we are. we are bombing their oil infrastructure in a way that is making it very difficult for them to look forward to the kind of oil sales that they ve had in the past. let me give you an example. we ve targeted the tanker trucks that move oil in the country and we ve taken 400 of those tanker trucks out in the last month, month and a half. we re going tow infrastructure around their oil refineries. but that s not the only source isil has. isil is sophisticated in terms of its financing. it started out conquering territory, seizing banks and spending the money in the banks. and it developed an oil revenue stream. we have to move as a world community to make sure that they do not have that kind of access, and that means going across border sales, formal and ....
fareed, yesterday s meeting was historic both because it was the first time finance ministers met but it also was to consider a resolution jointly sponsored by the united states and russia to bring the world together to make a very strong statement that we re not going to allow isil to continue to fund itself the way it has been. we re going to work together to shut down formal and informal means of financing as best we can and gave us more tools to do that. we have made progress and we are working hard as united states to make sure that the oil revenue is slowed down by taking striking at their oil infrastructure, but there s also trump keeps saying we should be bombing the oil fields. i assume the answer is we are. we are bombing the oil infrastructure in a way that is making it very difficult for them to look forward to the kind of oil sales they had in the past. let me give you an example. we targeted the tanker trucks that move toil in the country and taken 400 of those ou ....