declare a victory, and move on. it is an important victory for reasons especially isis in iraq. but the terror group is still making territorial gains in places like afghanistan. it s holding ground in syria and libya. so we have to keep this in context. we do. i don t think this is any real significant victory. i think it s important as far as the term context. what does that mean? this terror group immediately disper dispersed. i think there may have been contact. i think thanded up disappearing. what they re capable of doing as an international terror organization is continue to use that propaganda and continue to recruit and incite by building up their fighting forces. so i think afghanistan, pakistan, like you said, we are nowhere close to putting isis into any kind of done group. there are audio recordings rallying troops and followers. what does isis do now?
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isis will continue to get on youtube, they ll continue to get on twitter. they ll continue to use social media in order to in order to continue to just propagate and show the world that they are strong. how do they show the world? i guess in terms of attacks, what do they hit? well, exactly what they ve been doing which is ton incite and propagate and use that as their primary weapon which is we can tap into a vast number of potentially millions of of wannabes who ought to be or want to become or are affiliated with isis, tapping into that 21-year-old suffering from low self-esteem, often who knows what country, and then get him to want to pick up a rifle or get a weapon, and open fire into a crowd. we saw this in san bernardino. they re treating that as terrorism. isis continues to do what they do, which is the main weapon is let s tap into any potential sympathizer that we can recruit to create acts of terror. in other words quickly, it s impossible to know exactly whethe