Drehle     4      Islamic state

• territory that includes ethnic, tribal, religious, and geographic diversity
• partly lies in Syria

Drehle   5      Joining ISIS

• the basic message that lures people in to join these terrorists is: join us and kill your enemies before they kill you
• young people from an estimated 90 nations have been drawn into ISIS

Drehle     5       What Obama is doing about ISIS

• primary determination is to avoid the fly trap that is Syria
• Instead of solving the problem at hand, he is eavesdropping on phone calls, capturing emails, and trolling websites, which is getting us no where as a nation

Drehle      7       Chasing Terrorist Money

• U.S. pilots destroyed more than 100 oil tanks in Syria
• this strategy took longer than a year, which makes Obama's plan so uninspiring 

Drehle     8      Actually beating ISIS

• to beat these terrorists, Obama must step his game up
• there are several territories that will go down if ISIS goes down
• he believed that a more "humble" U.S. policy would be greeted around the world, which sounds like the flame under a boiling pot

Drehle     8      Terror Statistics

• basically the new "normal"
• 13,463 terror attacks across the globe in 2014
• 1,122 a month on average

Drehle   1    Problems around the world

• ISIS killed nearly 400 people by blowing up a Russian passenger jet that flew over Egypt
• terror raid in a Paris suburb on November 18 that left two people dead

Drehle      3      Timeline

• between August 2014 and March 2015 ISIS exploded
• ISIS executed American journalist James Foley
• gunman seizes 17 hostages in a Sydney cafe
• three terrorists attack Charlie Hebdo and a supermarket, leaving 17 dead

Dehle    4      Terror in the U.S.

• so far in 2015, more than twice as many U.S. residents have been linked to Islamic extremist plots
• ISIS has emerged as the key recruiter for all terrorism

Drehle    5    ISIS and the internet

• they use social media to attack and indoctrinate 
• known as the "dark side of globalization"