I think, because of the effectiveness of the media campaign or the propaganda campaign that ISIL mounts, that we, the United States, and we, the West, we who oppose ISIL need to be, I think, much more aggressive in mounting the counternarrative.
Clapper emphasizes the need for a stronger counter-narrative against ISIL's propaganda.
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