ISIS may have been dealt a heavy blow by the Trump Administration’s efforts so far, but unfortunately, that doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of them yet. Two weeks before the deadly New York City bombing, ISIS released a warning that said, “We will see you in New York for Christmas soon”.
Though we have all but completely wiped out ISIS in their strongholds of Iraq and Syria, ISIS continues to exert influence and pull off deadly attacks by radicalizing lone-wolf attackers over the internet and by scattering their fighters across the US and Europe. This type of cowardly terrorism is especially hard to combat or see coming and leaves us vulnerable at a time of year when ISIS has promised to ramp up attacks.
Rep. McCaul, the House Homeland Security Committee chair, says that the best way to stop these tactics is to take ISIS’s jihadist material down off the internet once and for all. Largely due to technological limitations, though, this is easier said than done and will require immense cooperation by tech companies in the private sector.
It’s safe to say that ISIS as an organization is in their death throes, yet the amount of damage they will be able to inflict before they mercifully disappear is still yet to be seen.
To see Rep. McCaul discuss ISIS’s Christmas threat on Fox News, be sure to check out the video below.
