. should the west take the fight to isis in syria? is that what isis wants us to do? back is graeme wood and michael weiss. they have to keep territory. i want you to listen to president barack obama on monday. he is laying out the approach to fighting isis. and the more we shrink the territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populations. that allows us to reduce the flow of foreign fighters which then over time will lessen the
started to read that you were in for the daily beast. i encourage anyone whose not read it to do so. the guy you interviewed claims he defected from isis security state service. what to you is perhaps the most revealing thing you learned from talking to him? well, i mean, isis is always presented itself as an actual state. i mean, they are called the islamic state for a reason. we have administrative services. we run a vast intelligence gathering apparatus and have more conventional than conventional manner but it was hard anderson to separate just their bluster from the reality. what the defector, what he revealed is that i wouldn t call it a functioning state but it s gone to failed state hood in a manner quite remanence sent and
what i saw developed creating this califate makes it more attractive to potential recruits. so when i said that we are containing their spread in iraq and syria, in fact, they control less territory than they did last year. and the more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers. president obama defending his isis strategy, basically saying it s working as best it can, that he s certainly open to other ideas, but for now, they are staying the course, not adding more u.s. troops on the ground in syria or in iraq, don. yeah. does that make sense, anderson?
constant effort at vigilance and requires extraordinary coordination. now, part of the reason that it is important what we do in iraq and syria is that the narrative isil developed of creating this caliphate makes it more attractive to potential recruits. so when i said we are containing their spread in iraq and syria, in fact, they control less territory than they did last year. and the more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state. and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populations. that allows us to reduce the flow of foreign fighters, which
constant effort at vigilance and requires extra toeordinary coordination. part of the reason it is important what we do in iraq and syria is that the narrative that isil developed of creating this caliphate makes it more attractive to potential recruits. so when i said that we are containing their spread in iraq and syria, in fact they control less territory than they did last year. and the more we shrink that territory, the less they can pretend that they are somehow a functioning state and the more it becomes apparent that they are simply a network of killers who are brutalizing local populations. that allows us to reduce the flow of foreign fighters, which