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>> he did have the chops to seize huge chunks of iraq and syria. how did he make that happen? >> that's a very different story. the isis is essentially a bunch of old baathist military officers that used to work for saddam hussein. they have military skills and learned how to self-finance their jihad, if you want to call it that, by basically kidnapping, extortion, taxing, and robbing banks. that's not necessarily a religious mandate. thirdly, they're in a power vacuum. there's no one there to actually fight them and it's a very small group of people who are about to be wiped out. >> but the b...