The ISIS Crisis: My Opinion on the Conflict in the Middle-East
During the last couple of months, a new terrorist group has arisen in the middle east. The group of Islamic radical militants, known as ISIS, has gained plenty of notoriety on the news recently, and for all the reasons that you would expect.
The most recent thing that ISIS has done to get their face on the news was the killing of U.S. Journalist, Steven Sotloff. Mr. Sotloff was abducted and taken hostage by ISIS in Syria in 2013. About a month ago, Mr. Sotloff was seen on video, with a militant claiming that Mr. Sotloff would be killed if the U.S. did not comply with their demands. After not complying with their demands, Mr. Sotloff was killed, and ISIS claimed that they would kill another one of their captives.
Now, first of all I can see how the death of Mr. Sotloff would deeply disturb some people. The guttural reaction that most people would have is that we need to go into Syria, and take the group out, or that this is all the Obama administrations fault. Now, I am not saying that the U.S. government does not have some part to play in this travesty, but I don't think that this is all their fault. In my opinion, this is the exact reaction that ISIS is hoping to solicit from the whole entire world. ISIS wants us to go into Syria and go after them, but this brings up the question,"Why would they want to fight the strongest military in the world"? Well this is explained in a simple concept called,"Collateral Damage". Collateral damage is defined on Wikipedia as:
Collateral damage is damage to things that are incidental to the intended target. It is frequently used as a military term where it can refer to the accidental or unintentional killing or wounding of non-combatants and/or destruction to non-combatant property during attacks on legitimate enemy targets
What does this all mean? Well, it means that ISIS wants us in Syria because if we go there, then they can solicit reactions from us by killing U.S. soldiers, and also due to large amount of bombing we have doing over in Syria, there is a possibility that we could end up killing our own men. Another thing they can accomplish by making us "occupy" Syria is that they can make us look like the source of all of their problems to the Syrian peoples. In the end, I think that this whole situation could have been handled a lot better, but however, that's my opinion.
The most recent thing that ISIS has done to get their face on the news was the killing of U.S. Journalist, Steven Sotloff. Mr. Sotloff was abducted and taken hostage by ISIS in Syria in 2013. About a month ago, Mr. Sotloff was seen on video, with a militant claiming that Mr. Sotloff would be killed if the U.S. did not comply with their demands. After not complying with their demands, Mr. Sotloff was killed, and ISIS claimed that they would kill another one of their captives.
Now, first of all I can see how the death of Mr. Sotloff would deeply disturb some people. The guttural reaction that most people would have is that we need to go into Syria, and take the group out, or that this is all the Obama administrations fault. Now, I am not saying that the U.S. government does not have some part to play in this travesty, but I don't think that this is all their fault. In my opinion, this is the exact reaction that ISIS is hoping to solicit from the whole entire world. ISIS wants us to go into Syria and go after them, but this brings up the question,"Why would they want to fight the strongest military in the world"? Well this is explained in a simple concept called,"Collateral Damage". Collateral damage is defined on Wikipedia as:
Collateral damage is damage to things that are incidental to the intended target. It is frequently used as a military term where it can refer to the accidental or unintentional killing or wounding of non-combatants and/or destruction to non-combatant property during attacks on legitimate enemy targets
What does this all mean? Well, it means that ISIS wants us in Syria because if we go there, then they can solicit reactions from us by killing U.S. soldiers, and also due to large amount of bombing we have doing over in Syria, there is a possibility that we could end up killing our own men. Another thing they can accomplish by making us "occupy" Syria is that they can make us look like the source of all of their problems to the Syrian peoples. In the end, I think that this whole situation could have been handled a lot better, but however, that's my opinion.
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