>OK, so ISIS is/was funded by Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Northwestern Iraq, and Northeastern Syria.
>So..
>a. how is that a "foreign threat?"
>b. why are they not a group of people rallying around a religious concept?


Bill, please go back and read what I said.

You painted it as an "either/or"...your exact words..."ISIS is a group of people rallying around a religious concept, not a foreign power".

Clearly the first part of what you said is correct. My point was that ISIS receives funding through complex foreign infrastructures. They are not exclusively backed by one foreign nation-state, but by several key sources.