The only way the United States can stop the world threat posed by ISIS is to launch a full-fledged attack against the terror group in Iraq, former Navy SEAL and FBI special agent Jonathan Gilliam says.
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"Here's how you fight a war. You go in and you decimate an enemy," Gilliam, now president of United States Continued Service, LLC, said Monday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on
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ISIS — the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — has been barnstorming through Iraq, either slaughtering Christians or forcing them to convert to Islam in a bid to make an Islamic state.
"This is a global movement and it's called the Caliphate and they believe that when they rid the world of over 51 percent of nonbelievers that their Caliph will come back; Mohammed was the first Caliph,'' Gilliam said.
"So for anyone to think, especially anyone in a leadership position, that this fight wouldn't eventually come here … that's as dumb as occupying a base and not a country when you go in."
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