CNN Smerconish November 14, 2015 23:28:00
To do their training, to have a spot to expand their training academies, you know, meaning afghanistan and iraq. we eliminated that, but now one-third of syria, one-third of iraq are giant training grounds, more prolific than existed in the past and thousands -- bin laden would not have been able to accommodate the thousands of people that showed up to train in afghanistan at his camps back in the late '90s compared to what they can do now all over syria, all over iraq. so until the present caliphate eliminated you're going to have training grounds. again, it's still ideology. only takes a han...