plans to recapture all of Syria . " The message to the Assad regime was that Russia does n’t play by Assad ’s playbook , it does n’t want to get down in Syria ’s quagmire ( but ) wants to cut its losses , " Gerges believes .
" But if we truly are in a war against terrorism and we are truly looking for ways to shut off their funding , shut off the flow of foreign fighters , then we 've got to shut off their means of communicating . " This was no heat - of - the - moment hyperbole . Earlier that same day , the former secretary of state was even more explicit about what she would demand from American technology companies : " We 're going to need help from Facebook and from YouTube and from Twitter , " she declared on ABC 's This Week , announcingcontact.publicstatementinperson.broadcasta strategy of fighting terrorists " in the air , " " on the ground , " and " on the Internet . " " They can not permit the recruitment and the actual direction of attacks or the celebration of violence . They 're going to have to help us take down these announcements and these appeals . "