ISIS: The State of Terror
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2015
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
This week, Brookings hosted a book launch with Jessica Stern and co-author Brookings Fellow J.M. Berger for their new book, ISIS: The State of Terror. The panel, which also featured Brookings Fellow William McCants, details ISIS’s strategies and techniques--its unprecedented mix of brutality, media savvy, territorial gain, and recruitment. The authors also outline their recommendations for how the United States and its allies should respond to the ISIS threat.
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| 0:29.0 | Clearly, they think it works. |
| 0:35.0 | And it would seem that part of what they're aiming to do is |
| 0:38.0 | terrify the enemies into submission. |
| 0:41.0 | And that that may be one of the reasons they were so successful so quickly. |
| 0:45.0 | But it also does seem to be a marketing strategy. |
| 0:49.0 | They seem to want to erode empathy. |
| 0:53.0 | They want to create a new human being. |
| 0:56.0 | They're starting with very young kids. |
| 0:59.0 | They're having these kids practice beheading on blonde dolls. |
| 1:04.0 | They have a whole mechanism for eroding empathy, |
| 1:09.0 | so that a person is capable of killing at close range. |
| 1:13.0 | They really believe that they are moving in the direction |
| 1:17.0 | of carrying out the minor signs and the major signs of the coming end times. |
| 1:23.0 | And that there is this brutality that's part of the lead up to the final battle. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm Cody Poplin, and this is the LawFair podcast March 28, 2015. |
| 1:37.0 | That was just a stern you just heard. |
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