...Why the U.S. Must Declare War on ISIS By now, we have all heard of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS. ISIS has established itself as a lethal threat to America and all of its allies. It is my belief, along with many other Americans, that our government must declare war on the rising jihadist terror group. They control much of the Middle East’s land resources, hold countless Christian and other Western hostages, and are using sly manipulation to draw in recruits from America, the United Kingdom, and other such countries. ISIS must be quickly exterminated. To begin with, ISIS has seized control of the majority of Iraq and Syria. ISIS began as an offspring of al Qaeda, but was disowned by the group for being too brutal; they went over the limits of the best known terror group to date! According to CNN, ISIS’ government is similar to those of Western countries they oppose “if you take away the democracy and add in a council to consider who should be beheaded.” They have now overthrown Iraq’s second-largest city and control over half of Syria’s oil because of the city of Raqqa. From there, they sell oil on the black market and make an expected three million dollars per day. Raqqa is also ISIS’ capitol. This city is key to...
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...Sarae Sinville ISIS in Iraq The recurring problem in Iraq is the terrorist group ISIS. ISIS stands for the Islamic State of Iraq. ISIS is able to control Iraq by using a great deal of terror. ISIS kills, kidnaps, etc., Iraqi citizens without any regret. They kidnap children, random people, and people who don’t follow the Islamic faith. ISIS continues to try to take control the Iraqi government, even they control oil refineries around the world. There was something called the battle of Tikrit (Tikrit is the name of the capital of Iraq), which was a war between the Iraqi government and ISIS....
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...American blood in the hands of ISIS, should the United States invade Iraq to stop them? Many people say we definitely should, while others are thinking of the bigger picture. The United States invaded Iraq once already; are we ready to do it again? I believe we shouldn’t get caught up in the situation and do things we aren’t prepared for. I do believe however that the United States should maintain military pressure on ISIS in order to discourage further expansion rather than a full scale invasion of the Middle East. A full scale invasion would put the U.S. in a similar position as 10 years ago. The United States should not intervene with the ISIS Crisis in the Middle East because of the extreme cost and to preserve American...
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...was repeatedly trying to say in a complete sentence, while left bewildered on the death news of her 17-year old only boy, in Peshawar. That family does not understand what diplomatic relationships between Pakistan and other countries can benefit them with, all it knows is that the feud between their army and a terrorist group in the country made them suffer the biggest loss of all times. Whole world stands in shock and despair with the Shia-Islamic State of Pakistan, over their loss. We stand at a point where we have to choose between three paths. One, sit hand on hand and let the terrorists show their “might” by more such events in many other vulnerable countries. Second, debate. Mouths full but hands empty. Shouting on National Television and ending up blaming each other. Third, Act. The most difficult and road-not-to-be-taken of all. Although, this can help us eradicate the problem from grassroots, we won’t, because our political and diplomatic limits do not allow us to, but out humane limits do allow us to witness more such decimations. Pakistan and Arabic Countries Front We cannot give a clean chit to Middle-east countries and Pakistan over the issue as they have been known to shelter, rather, nourish the terrorists who are responsible for the world’s biggest terror attacks and annihilations. Be it Don Dawood Ibrahim or Hafiz Saeed or Osama Bin Laden, once in the lifetime, Pakistan nourished them. Then, how can you try to explode a neighbor’s house and expect that your...
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...events surrounding the instance where a shooter had killed a soldier pulling guard duty at the war memorial, and then proceeded to the foyer of the parliament offices where he was stopped by a hail of gunfire. There were a few things that made this article interesting. One major part that stood out was that Canada’s “high-risk traveler” watch list has 90 people on it (Zavis, Mai-Duc and Susman). This sounds like an awfully low number considering the US probably has thousands. To me it would seem you could afford to assign 90 agents to follow these “high-risk” individuals at all times. This article was a pretty quick and easy read. It was laid out in a good chronological order with added quotes from witnesses in the area which helped it flow well. The facts have been confirmed by numerous sources including those witnesses. Another interesting note is where the soldier who was killed had been identified by a friend who had recognized him in television video of paramedics trying to save his life (Zavis, Mai-Duc and Susman). The audience the authors were targeting is just about everyone who has heard about the shootings and might not have known any of the details. This article had been placed on the front page, because of the potential ties to the radical Islamic group ISIS. ISIS has been a huge focus point in the news as a whole in recent months. It’s hard to pull out any kind of opinion in this type of informational article. My opinion stands with the importance felt by this...
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...The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Hank Gray American Military University The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is the biggest threat to the Unites States of American in the world today. It is not a question of if they will attack but when they will attack on American soil. To really understand how they might do it and why they want to one must first look at their history and beliefs. Al-Quade started during the Cold War when Russia invaded Afghanistan. The United States was against all things Russian and started to support the locals fight back against the Russians. This led to the United States giving Al-Quade weapons and training. After the withdrawal of the Russians in 1988 a named Ahmad Fadhil Nasal Al-Khalaylah joined Al-Quade. Once there he met a man named Sheikh Abu Muhammad who had a lot more violent outlook then Obama bin Laden. Unlike Bin Laden, Al-Khalaylah, who changed his name to Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, grew up very poor and was a lot more extreme because of this fact. In 1999 he returned to Jordan and formed his own organization known as Jamaat Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad or the Organization of Monotheism and Jihad. On September 11, 2001 Al-Quade made their motives known when they committed a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and another flight that crashed before reaching a target. This would led to the United States invading Afghanistan in 2001 and in 2003 Iraq. Zarqawi’s group was...
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...and social systems all over the world. Information Operations is defined as, The integrated employment of the core capabilities of electronic warfare, computer network operations, psychological operations, military deception and operations security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision making while protecting our own. Also called IO (Air University 2006). Former Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) member Rand Waltzman states, “I recently concluded a $50 million program, Social Media in Strategic Communication, which led to the release of more than 200 publications and to the creation of a science of social media. What we learned is that “bullsh..t” is a weapon that is being used worldwide to fundamentally attack the medium of the press, and that the issue of freedom of the press is, in fact, a diversion. Russian President Vladimir Putin, for example, is a master of this type of cognitive hack. The director of the Russian International News Agency, Dmitry Kiselev, provided deep insight into this strategy by saying: “Objectivity is a myth which is proposed and imposed on us.” The tagline of this approach is “hack the medium, hack the message (Waltzman 2015).” Alongside Russia’s invasion of...
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...11th, 2001. The war on terrorism has been dealt with since then but not as efficient as people want. Immigration has a big role in the war on terrorism as the country is unaware of certain people entering this country with the intent of performing acts of terror. With that being seen in this country too often now, the idea of closing the borders may not be the worst idea this government has ever had. Of course an extreme idea like that can lead to further issues but can also provide the country with the time to sit down and reflect on what can be done better in the future to avoid these circumstances. The people of this country might not have the best course of action to solve this issue but the government needs to work hard to fix this issue we are having on a daily basis. Nearly 3,000 people were killed instantly for the attacks of 9/11. On the day of these attacks, 19 al Qaeda members hijacked planes and performed the most lethal act of terrorism in American history. This attack raised the awareness of Islam and its teachings tremendously. There have been reports of increased sales of the Qur’an and literature on Islam, for example, and some mosques prominent Muslim community leaders have reported a surge in converts to Islam since 9/11 (Coskun 2012). The general public has had an upsurge of interest in the Arab-Muslim world. This awareness is proven through the study done by ProQuest and LAC search engines showing that there was a total of 105 dissertations done by graduate...
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...Hezbollah represents the modern standard by which we compare other hybrid threats to. It's actions and involvement in the 2006 Lebanon-Israel War led to a perception shift about who and what qualifies as a threat to a modern nation-state. I will briefly expand upon Hezbollah's origins, capabilities, and actions during the 2006 conflict which led to the reemergence and recognition of hybrid threats in the modern era. Hezbollah is a militant Shi'a group headquartered and founded in Lebanon in 1982, where it also employs a political wing of the same name. It originated in South Lebanon when several militant groups joined together to oppose a Shi'a political and militant party called the Amal Movement. Hezbollah's primary focus in its formative years was the expulsion of Israel from Lebanon, after Israel's invasion in the early 1980s. From it's inception, Hezbollah utilized tactics and techniques across the entire spectrum of land operations, using guerrilla tactics alongside conventional forces, coupled with propaganda and political maneuvering....
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...without fear of being hurt .she wants girls to speak up and have a voice she says “Quran Allahabad if you kill one it is as if you kill the whole humanity” groups like Isis and the taliban's derive their own beliefs and extreme understandings of the quran rather than listening to actual teachings of it . They kill women for going to school and not wearing veils but this is not allah's wish , what they are doing is completely disregarding the benevolence allah wishes for. Although many reacted positively to the idea of women having more freedom and more rights many disagreed and believe women are not equal to men therefore should not be treated that way imam Khomeini once supreme leader of Iran was completely against the westernization of women in the Middle East and when he came into power he made it mandatory for women to wear their hijabs and if they didn't wear their veils they were punished to up to 60 lashes “I'm looking to take it back 1400 years more” khomeini wanted to make iran go back to the time of Rasool Allah he wanted no aspect of modern western life in the country and wanted to follow ancient beliefs and rituals similar to supreme leader's way before his time. He was bringing down iran and bringing women's rights down with him. The west in the eyes of people in the middle east is a place of evil. where women leave their house with revealing clothing and are allowed to do as they please. Men do not want their woman to overpower them like they do in the u.s, they believe...
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...1865 terrorism is existent and today continues to be a problem here in the United States. Terrorism back in 1865 was defined more as an assassination or attack on government officials. The first assassination was the attack of President Lincoln April 14th. Lincoln was killed at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. John Wilkes Booth had a plan to kidnap Lincoln instead of killing him right away but that had changed as Lincoln didn’t show up to the spot where some conspirators were at. After this attack Booth was later convicted along with four of his conspirators. This assassination left United States in shock with many questions. People wondered why someone would have the motivation to kill our president and what reason would they kill the president? These questions still exist today for terrorists that decide to do shootings or attacks. The most recent attack was on January 6th, 2017 at an airport. The unstable person that did it was Santiago. He had told the people that arrested him that he was fighting for ISIS and he had heard voices in his head that sounded like the CIA telling him to do it. Santiago obviously had some mental illness which had led him to killing five people and injuring six. There is another court appearance on January 30th to determine his sentence. Already there was a terrorist attack in the new year of 2017. There hasn’t been one year without any shootings or terrorist attack. Peter Bergen of NY Times had said, “There are 300 cases of people charged...
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...Natural Law is the law that has been or should have been embedded into one’s mind and body. However the world, as of today, has drifted away from those “theories”. But, think of a world that would follow these rules, it’s like an unattainable utopia. However its feels as if we grasped it once before. The law to kill shouldn’t have to be implicated onto the human law, but the world has lost its way from the past and now it’s chaotic. To me the natural law has been overrun but the human law which makes the natural merely a mirage. To judge right and wrong is all based of morals which I believe Thomas Aquinas overlooked. Yes, he gave a general view as to what he believes in, but when in come down to each individual person then there morals or ethos will tell how one truly feels. So out of the option I would say that right and wrong is merely a will which is placed upon the person, You either choose to do something or you do not choose to do it. Either way it is up to the person because they make the final decision, unlike Thomas Aquinas. On the other hand, I totally disagree with Nietzsche concept of...
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...Despite the U.S. or global reliance on the Middle East’s reserves, IS exports about 9,000 barrels of oil per day to gain supplies, weapons, and backing from the surrounding areas (Stephens, 2014). This precarious oil situation poses an enormous threat the U.S. in terms of economy as well as oil supply to our military. In order to replenish U.S. supply, if it were to diminish with IS hold over the Middle East, the U.S. would have to either remove IS from control or buy from IS, lending to their state. Moreover, with ISIS control of vast amounts of territory in the Middle East, they would have control of oil reserves that other countries rely heavily on. This could pose a major threat to the developed world because ISIS could use the oil trade as leverage for countries to side with their radical ideals. It is known that IS primarily functions for the profits generated by selling oil on the black market, and “the Islamic State controls more territory than al-Qaeda ever has, which means it has access to money on an unprecedented scale to finance its mayhem” (Kerry, 2014). If IS encompasses the territory in which the world’s oil supply is generated, coupled with a monopoly over prices, this can prove to be problematic for the U.S., and possibly the rest of the world in that their power will be seemingly unmatched. The resource accumulation alone could be enough...
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...TOPIC Education Can End Terrorism INTRODUCTION Terrorism stands as a serious challenge before civil society today . It is an issue of global concern which almost all countries in the world, both developed and developing, directly or indirectly facing. Terrorist are the greatest enemies of society because they undermine it stability by creating chaotic conditions leading to mass killing, damage and destruction. To avoid terrorism from keep spreading through the entire globe, we agree that education is the key. However, according to economist, terrorist organizations may prefer to use highly educated individuals as operatives because they are better suited to carry out acts of international terrorism than are impoverished illiterates since the terrorists must fit into a foreign environment to be successful. TOPIC SENTENCE Education can end terrorism because education can promotes self discipline of the individuals, it is the best tool to reach the youth and while people can be killed, ideologist cannot. BODY: 1. Education promotes self discipline 1.1 helps individual to become discipline in self regulation 1.1.1 Self-regulation is the ability to manage disruptive emotions and impulses, and to think before you react. 1.1.2 most terror attack happens without considering other people but only because of the desire to get what they want and Fuller their wishes. 1.1.3 Trained people...
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...ISIS’ CATACLYSMISM: A PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAISAL By Dominic E.B. Anyalagbuna 1. ABSTRACT: The very inhumane hazards of the so-called Islamic militant group named ISIS are indeed highly cataclysmic! However, this paper is faced with the problem of undertaking a philosophical examination of the named group. This, the paper does, using the critical-evaluative method by considering their history, aims and activities. Upon this examination, this work discovers that, among other relevant theories, this rebel group seems to be operating on the Transcendental Idealism of Immanuel Kant which states that ‘only ideas in the mind exist,’ though one cannot absolutely arrive at it. This theory follows from the militants’ idea of Muhammad’s prophecy that ‘there will be a time when the whole world will be subjected under a ‘caliphate,’ with a ‘caliph’ as their head. Nevertheless, in the end, this treatise highlights that the solution to ISIS’s crisis is mental and intellectual re-formation. In such-wise, this work adequately recommends an urgent mental re-configuration founded on re-interpretation of the Quran among these Islamic extremists, which fundamentally, is the task of philosophy to rationally and critically accomplish. 2. PREAMBLE: There is a profound state of topsy-turvy in almost the whole countries of the world, but principally and most intensely in Syria and Iraq. This is superabundantly generated by the insurgent undertakings of the Islamic militants baptised ISIS. However, there...
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