But they're always stragglers, there's always survivors. When you squeeze the balloon, what happens? Some of them squirt out to other areas of ungoverned space. The fact that Arab jihadists are having to hide out in the Lake Chad Basin of Africa. is an indicator of our incredible success. So let's, you know, pat ourselves on the back. However, what was their response if they don't have a caliphate, if they don't remember, Al Qaeda had training universities, they had camps where they'd cycle through. (28:03–28:09)
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