(CNN)The map of ISIS "activity" makes for frightening reading. The group or its affiliates claim conspiracies and attacks on four continents; its self-declared "provinces" cut a swath across the Middle East and Africa; and it has begun to take the war to its enemies with the bombing of the Russian Metrojet airliner over Sinai and the Paris attacks. There's still a huge difference between the "ISIS core" carrying out mass murder in Iraq and Syria or seizing a city the size of Ramadi, and an infatuated follower in Boston or London picking up a carving knife. At one end of the spectrum, there are well-trained fighting units and bomb factories operating in ISIS' heartland. At the other are lone...
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