>> is it a national security interest or national security threat to the united states? >> well, it is, no, it is, for sure. this islam make state has threatened the united states and there are jihads that are fighting with it that have promised to come after targets in the west. >> but when you talk about, you know, saying that if you hit isis in iraq, you have to deal with them in syria. that just sounds like, again, you know, mission creep, very rapid mission creep. >> yeah, this is not a problem anderson that will be solve in one day or one week or one month. this is a really tough problem now and to be honest, i see no easy choices for administration. i see no easy choices for the countries in the region and friends in places like europe to solve the problem, but we can't ignore it because the problem is actually growing bigger. >> in terms of united states