George Packer
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requiring answers to a long questionnaire. But ISIS has democratized and globalized jihad by lowering the entry bar to an eve-of-destruction YouTube pledge of allegiance to the caliphate — and even that could probably be waived.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable...People take different roads seeking fulfillment...Honor is the inner garment of the Soul...Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing...I'll lift you and you lift me...No person was ever honored for what he received...
