Radical Islam is more dangerous now than 14 years ago.
Via Free Beacon:
State Department Press Secretary John Kirby offered a contradictory assessment of U.S. progress against radical Islam on Friday, calling the ideology a “loser” that was nonetheless “metastasizing” across the world.
“I believe that terrorist networks around the world—while they continue to metastasize and fester and remain a lethal threat—are themselves under threat,” Kirby said.
Kirby cited U.S. progress in killing members of core al Qaeda, although similar terrorist groups, like Islamic State (IS) and Boko Haram, have proliferated in recent years.
“This is an ideology that is a loser, and it’s going to lose,” Kirby said. “But as I said earlier, we recognize it’s going to take time and effort and resources and will probably result in more bloodshed before it does.”
Kirby said that the anti-IS coalition carrying out airstrikes in Iraq and Syria was a “significant” example of the pressure that the U.S. is placing on terrorist groups.