their proxies there to startup? do their boxes in hezbollah in that process, hezbollah evidence, start up and create increased tensions with with israel. there s anyway that iran can ramp up, but primarily that beef if you will, that issue with the united states is they want them out of the region and will continue through process to try to attack to try to diminish the will to stay but the u. s troops in syria they re predominantly to tackle isis. um isis until recently has been more deadly against us forces in syria than the iranians have, um , again. it s a very, very complex situation, but to your 0.78 attacks since 2021 that s an average of one almost every 10 days that significant and it can t be overlooked, and i think that s very clearly why there was such a fast response. not just that. the president said. yes do something quickly that
the year was 2004. the atrocity aroused deep american anger and brought promises of retribution. we will hunt down the criminals, we will kill them or capture them. and we will pacify fallujah. and u.s. forces fought two long and bloody battles to retake the city. nearly 70 americans lost their lives liberating fallujah, and hundreds more were left seriously wounded. ten years later, fallujah falls back into the hands of an enemy. this time it s isis. just a few days after fallujah fell, the president talked about the threat from the terror group in an interview with the new yorker magazine. he said the analogy we use around here sometimes, and i think is accurate, is if a jv
main focus is not to come here. they want americans to go there. the leaders of isis have recognized that above all they are a messaging machine, which in turn becomes a recruitment machine. their gruesome videos would seem a repulsive turnoff and a to most people but they work on the web. the shock and awe they produce makes them go viral and seen by tens of millions. and they attract the alienated young men who seek revenge, glory and gore. as long as those young muslim men scattered across the globe are attracted to isis and stream to its cause, the group presents the world with a danger that is impossible to fully assess and a impossible to fully assess and a danger that grows by the month.
he went to mosul, an iraqi city the size of philadelphia. population around 1.5 million. it s the biggest prize isis has captured. this extraordinary video gives us a rare look into every day life into isis. it brings to mind the writer the banality of evil. isis has its own license plates and traffic cops who give parking tickets. and there are friendly shop keepers. completely brainwashed. i ve never in my life met people like this. this, of course is the mosul isis officials wanted todenhofer to see. they gave him written permission
team puts on lakers uniforms, that doesn t make them kobe bryant. i was disappointed. i was disappointed that he said that. i don t think he was well served. the need for intelligence surveillance. michael flynn had a front row seat to the rise of isis. he led the defense intelligence agency until late last year. we failed to understand the enemy that we faced. flynn says intelligence officials had warned the administration that isis was growing more dangerous before the president made his infamous jv comment. the president has said the intelligence on isis was inadequate. here he is on 60 minutes. how did they end up where they are in control of so much territory? was that a complete surprise to you? well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that