The effort to build up rapport with Muslims in the U.S. is predicated on the idea that you're worried about the community and you want them to trust law enforcement more and be more willing to give information about people who may be radicalizing. William McCants More Quotes by William McCants More Quotes From William McCants The President is not known for nuance, which is what a speech like this requires to escape the potential wrath of his multiple audiences. William McCants top-news If it is indeed terrorism and there isn’t a claim, it could be because the organization wants to give the other cell members time to go to ground. William McCants world At least Madison Avenue execs can point to product sales to justify ad campaigns, but if you're trying to persuade people not to do something, what possible metric could there be? William McCants politics In English it became unfairly characterized as 'tweeting at terrorists,' but a lot of their better stuff was not in English and targeted at people who were not already terrorist sympathizers. William McCants politics I mean, there's the famous statement that the president made about [ISIS] being a JV team, they believed that the group would collapse under their own extreme weight, and you wouldn't have to really have to mount an effort against it. I think, of course, there's been a growing realization over the past year that more than wishes and dreams are going to be necessary in order to destroy the Islamic State, and the president is putting more muscle behind it as a consequence. William McCants opinion A lot of it was hastily composed and it's written by people who often don't have a long familiarity with the group. William McCants opinion