He's scared that his co-authored book, mentioned prominently in the propaganda piece, is going to fail..... As to the Generals point about ISIS, an army can only kill the active military and their support... it cannot do a Vulcan mind merge with the entire population, and extract ISIS tendencies... If they stayed there, to wait for the next generation to grow up... I bet the general would get a bonus from the Warmongers paying him to say these things...