ISIS is something else again, because that's something that hasn't happened before.
ISIS is al-Qaeda in Iraq.
ISIS wants to kill hundreds, thousands if they can.
on ISIS , which aired on MSNBC.
What ISIS is doing gets them attention.
You see through ISIS videos.
from the ISIS version, except that they don't do such brutal demonstrations.
We hear a lot about ISIS .
And if you listen to ISIS statements, they talk about their founding members being the insurgency in Iraq that was fighting in Ramadi,
You can't be charming enough with ISIS .
So we had a card stack on ISIS , which is just an exceptional piece of work by a writer named Zack Beauchamp.
And that card stack on ISIS was very, very early in the conflict with ISIS very early and their rise.
Maybe we'll leave the discussion for ISIS for the questions.
You don't suddenly sit down with ISIS tomorrow and negotiate peace.
Now I've never sat across the table from someone from ISIS and try to figure out what motivates them, for god sake.
And now they have one group or one ISIS caliphate, as they call it, that spans the border between Iraq and Syria.
I don't think I could go to ISIS .
It's not like you sit down with ISIS and say, so let's, you know-- Nah, you're not going to win that one.
But if we really think we're going to defeat ISIS by bombing, we're sadly mistaken.
But we know that territory is being taken by extremist groups-- ISIS being the most audacious,
And ISIS is very dangerous, by every measure.
And we know that, you get images of ISIS and horrible things and not just horrible things, but horrible things for a very long time.
And of the 12 that were listed, ISIS was not number one.
So you're dealing with extremely dangerous, unpredictable ISIS insurgents.
But A, that's our answer to where ISIS came from.
from the downing or the disappearance of flight MH-370 to the rise of ISIS to Ukraine and Russia
Each card, it begins with ISIS used to be al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Now of course, groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS are more vicious.
So while we hear a lot in the media about middle class girls going to Syria to join ISIS ,
It's a common problem, and we see it with ISIS .
You know, James Foley other journalists who were taken by ISIS and were really brutalized for several years before they
For a couple years now, I've been trying to wrap my head around ISIS and how it came to be.
So one of the things that I think a lot about as we see what's going on in the Middle East with ISIS , the Islamic State, and so many
You've seen the truly horrendous stuff that's been going on with our colleagues who've been beheaded by ISIS .
I think it's at this point, 17 facts about ISIS and Iraq you should know.
And by the way, if you see words like Horus-- Some you might know Isis , these names.
together because I'm a Jew, and you're and this is like Jesus meeting a leader from ISIS .
Because I think we live in a world today-- and this doesn't take much thinking about-- we're involved in a medieval holy war with ISIS and the Taliban,
So that seed of insurgency, which was always there, goes over and finds incredibly fertile ground in Syria and blossoms into ISIS .
The example I would offer is ISIS , which is a horrific organization who are very effective at using social media, even though they themselves
Each of them, and especially ISIS , is trying
So the world, despite what you're reading, which is horrendous in Congo, in Mexico, in ISIS and a whole series of places, is a whole lot more peaceful today
Or you see, for example, I mean right now you see, like, ISIS has gotten very social media savvy.
And the world has gotten on just fine without a sequel-- although, maybe that's why there's ISIS .
When we first meet terrorists, we always say we'll never talk to you, as we just have with ISIS , for example.
And now, the latest is, of course, this ISIS Group, which has managed to get to some number of miles to Baghdad.
You talk about this, in the book, but, obviously, you don't talk about the current ISIS situation.
again to throw their lot in, on behalf of a unified Iraq, you cannot drive ISIS out of Mosul and other places that it
Sister Chi Chi describes herself as a priest of Isis .