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Almost all young men -- lust for jihad? thomas friedman has a simple explanation. >> none of them have ever held jobs, power, or a girl's hand. and when you put large numbers of young males together and you offer them a wife, you offer them a salary, and you offer them the ability to lord it over somebody else, that is isis' value proposition. next on "blindsided" is isis a threat to the united states? to the homeland? i'll give you my thoughts when we come back.

>> to ensure the success of democracy, maliki, a shiite, needed to heal the powerful schism between shiites and sunnis in iraq, but he never did. so when asked by the shiite abusers to fight against isis, the sunni soldiers and the iraqi army simply said no. >> for many sunnis, they looked at iranian-backed regime in baghdad and they looked at isis and some of them made the disastrous calculation that isis was the lesser of two evils. >> the last american soldier left the country in 2011, after the u.s. could not reach agreement with maliki to maintain a military presence. >> the question that...

Thousands of videos are strewn across the internet. much of it, of course, is sickeningly violent, unbearable to watch. the awful beheadings, the fiery murders. but all of it may add up to the single biggest reason for the success of isis. like so much of what the group does, this is a terror tactic we have not seen before. and it is frighteningly effective. >> 20 years ago, you could never find the three people in minnesota who would be attracted to the isis ideology. today you can and they can find you. isis has used facebook, twitter, google, and the worldwide web as its command and control...

>> 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 to come to the city and he believes they let him leave alive to make a point. >> they wanted to show me that they are a state and this state is working. it's not a perfect state, it's not like the united states. but it's a state. >> and it's getting bigger. todenhofer saw new recruits pouring in every day. >> in this recruitment center we had every day more than 50 new fighters. they can lose fighters. they don't care....

This man is one of a group of captured kurdish soldiers. >> when did they catch you? >> he told todenhofer he was afraid. shortly after, isis put kurdish prisoners in cages, dressed in orange jumpsuits. ♪ they were paraded through the streets and isis made a propaganda video out of it. ♪ it's hard to believe, but according to todenhofer, there are people in mosul who say they are better off under the islamic state. almost all are sunni and they have suffered at the hands of iraq's shiite government. >> first of all, instead of anarchy, they have now law and order. and people don't like, i ...