CLARK:
It could be put that way.
GENERAL:
Good, then we can say that our operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, together with the Homeland Security Act have significantly reduced their ability to attack, and so we are safer than we were.
CLARK:
Yes, but…
GENERAL:
So logically, if we continue what we are doing, in a few more years we will have reduced their abilities to an acceptable level?
CLARK:
But we believe this perpetual state of war will actually create a new types of Islamic Terrorists, possibly more extreme than the present ones. We’re hearing names and acitivity on the web – Abu Sayyaf in the Phillipines, al Shahab in Somalia, and a new one that are particularly virulent, the Islamic State, or the Caliphate, coming out of Iraq.
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