manner, the allure fades, the disenchantment builds and with it, ever increasing oppression. remember, no one has ever voted isis into power anywhere. they slaughter their way into victory. is isis a threat to the west? the group's leaders declare it is every day. but until recently their ambitions appear to be mostly centered on their arab enemies on building a caliphate in iraq and syria. in recent months, however, with the attacks against russia and turkey and france, clearly isis has expanded its ambitions and its operations. >> they understand, of course, to be terror group number one they must battle the country that is the world's number one power, america. they seek that confrontation, and hope that the united states would come to the middle east and fight them on their terms. on their terrain.