Name: One phrase from Saudi clerics could begin the end of Islamic State by Angry Planet
Duration: 45 min 4 s
Description: The recent terror attacks in Paris shook the world and put the focus back on Islamic State. This week on War College, we talk with American Special Operations intelligence veteran Malcolm Nance. Nance literally wrote the textbook on Iraq&rsquo;s terrorists and is the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project.

Great educational listen. He tells the secret in the last 5 minutes.

Thank you for this podcast, I believe I now have some understanding of The Islamic Cult, who call themselves ISIS

A lot of good info from a very credible source.  However, his notion that one can not rationally explain suicide bombing is challenged by U of C prof. Robert Pape and his Chicago Project on Suicide Terrorism (cpost.uchicago.edu). According to Pape's research "98% of suicide bombers act with the specific intent to persuade a democratic nation to remove it's military forces from land the bomber considers his homeland or is very important to him." On the other hand, according to the ISIS online mag, Dabiq, their goal is apocalyptic. On the other hand the author/historian Karen Armstrong says "all fundamentalism is rooted in a fear of extinction." That thought gives me sympathy for IS and the KKK and the Christian ID folks b/c their fears are justified.  The world they knew IS crumbling around them.  Our side won with the 18th century enlightenment.  Sez me.

food for thought. great interview with a better plan then the ususal "bomb them..."

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Americans in Ukraine Looking for ‘Daybreak’

The recent terror attacks in Paris shook the world and put the focus back on Islamic State. This week on War College, we talk with American Special Operations intelligence veteran Malcolm Nance. Nance literally wrote the textbook on Iraq&rsquo;s terrorists and is the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project.

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