which to act as det errents. but what we have seen today are nonstate actors, who have a very different sense of the stakes, who don't react the same way to the concept of deterrence. many of whom have decided, by the way, that they just as soon die as live. which is not the norm for most people's judgment. so, our strategy is different. our strategy, with respect to syria, certainly, is three-fold. what we're seeing emerge is really a transformation that represents not a clash of civilizations, because there's nothing civilized about daesh, it's barbaric, it's a step backwards in time, not by years, but by centuries. and it represents a clash not of civilizations but of culture and modernity. a clash of people who have been left behind and who find some false notion of explanation for their acts in the hijacking of a great religion or the distortion of the most fundamental notions of how people should choose to live. so, with respect to daesh, we have, first of all, intensified our campaign. first through a 65-m

which to act as det errents. but what we have seen today are nonstate actors, who have a very different sense of the stakes, who don't react the same way to the concept of deterrence. many of whom have decided, by the way, that they just as soon die as live. which is not the norm for most people's judgment. so, our strategy is different. our strategy, with respect to syria, certainly, is three-fold. what we're seeing emerge is really a transformation that represents not a clash of civilizations, because there's nothing civilized about daesh, it's barbaric, it's a step backwards in time, not by years, but by centuries. and it represents a clash not of civilizations but of culture and modernity. a clash of people who have been left behind and who find some false notion of explanation for their acts in the hijacking of a great religion or the distortion of the most fundamental notions of how people should choose to live. so, with respect to daesh, we have, first of all, intensified our campaign. first through a 65-m