been killed in the same firefight that killed douglas macarthur mccain i was joined earlier by john l. esposito a professor of religion and international affairs at georgetown university to discuss the growing trend of american recruitment by isis and how the u.s. will deal with the terror group inside of syria so i first started out by asking him why isis seems to be appealing to westerners in general. well i think that one of these we should get first of all is that isis actually is appealing far more broadly than we really thought for example indonesians chechnya and so who would have thought that it would be already growing in indonesia. and i think in terms of the u.s. . and the and europe. if you think about it it's precisely what al qaida has been trying to do in recent years and particularly targeting use disaffected youth in one way or another disaffected be the first young person who died as a suicide bomber from florida talked about he was raised in a good middle class background family but talked about never really feeling that he fit in. kid yeah you know and they can be a variety