[CBSNEWS] Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
on Monday said that stopping the flow of imported muscle joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as ISIL) will be far more important than air strikes in the mission to stamp out the myrmidon group.
"The military piece is one piece. It's one component of this. It's a critical component, but it's only one component," Kerry said from Gay Paree after meeting with representatives from 26 countries to discuss the effort. "And the truth is, equally - probably far more important than the military in the end, is going to be what countries are able to do to help Iraq to be able to step up -- and other places, by the way -- to step up and start drying up this pool of jihadis who get seduced into believing there's some virtue in crossing into Syria to fight or to join ISIL.
"What this effort has to do is literally dry up the money, dry up the imported muscle, prevent the imported muscle from going home back to various places to do harm," Kerry continued. "It has to start major efforts to delegitimize ISIS's claim to some religious foundation for what it's doing and begin to put real Islam out there and draw lines throughout the region."