Terrorists have attacked an airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Multiple individuals detonated bombs. There are also reports of grenades and assault rifle fire. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.



"We should continue to fight ISIS in the smartest way possible," he said. "Not with the greatest amount of vengeance, because that doesn't get you to your goal. If you strike out against Muslims, which ones? The ones who did the bombing or the ones who died in the bombing?"



"To insult the families of the victims, as they mourn their deaths by saying 'Muslims did it,' when they were the victims, is preposterous and ridculous," he said.



"Sometimes culture does create this," he said in response to those who would blame all Muslims for the 'radical Islamic' ideology of the 'Islamic State.' "Again, not the whole culture, a part of the culture. A culture with this degree of fundamentalism did not exist in the Muslims world anywhere near this degree 40 years ago, before the Saudis and Americans, because they wanted the Soviets to fight against Muslims [in Afghanistan]. And they thought that they could radicalize Muslims to fight the godless Soviets, so we spread propaganda. It is not all our fault, it is ultimately the fault of the perpatrators, but the Saudis and to some degree, the Americans, and others spread that poison throughout the world."



"If they spread that poison, we can spread the opposite message... The positive message that we spread can also work," he said.



"Bombing is easy, drop the bombs. But it doesn't work, 90% of the time. Fighting a battle of ideas is much harder, and it takes longer, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't do it... They way you do that is to encourage secularism, say the state and religion should not be combined," he added.