22:47 We have not spent enough time describing to the American people the true nature of ISIS and our next Secretary of State needs to be someone that understands it. ISIS has a monthly publication, it's called Dabiq. D-a-b-i-q. It’s an online publication. I don't encourage you to subscribe because then people might wonder about you. [laughter] But Dabiq is not some name they pulled out of a hat. Dabiq is the name of a village of a small city in Syria and the reason why they named it after that city is because according to their interpretation of prophecy they believe that there is going to be a final apocalyptic showdown between the West and Islam in the city of Dabiq. They believe that it is their calling to trigger this apocalyptic showdown and therefore when they recruit fighters, what they are recruiting them for is to be a part of this army that is going to trigger this final showdown between the West and Islam, that Islam will win and then the whole world will be governed under their set of rules led by the emergence of the 12th Imam the Mahdi, their their messianic figure.
Why is this important for us to understand and why is that important for the next Secretary of State to understand? Because when you understand that, you realize these are not people you can negotiate with. These are not people that are going to go out of business, these are not individuals that are disgruntled or unemployed, these are not people that are upset because American troops were deployed in Iraq. These are individuals with an apocalyptic vision of the future and they will not stop until they feel they have succeeded in triggering this apocalypse. It, by the way, similar to the views held by the Ayatollah of Iran and so when people that have an apocalyptic vision of the future are growing in their capabilities in the case of ISIS, or trying to acquire a nuclear weapon in the case of Iran, you understand why it is that in many cases diplomacy and engagement does not work and in the case of ISIS has no chance of working. We face a very fundamental choice - either they win or we win. There is no other possible outcome [applause] and the next Secretary of State better be someone that understands this.
