The United States is the number one strongest military power in the world. There is no power in the world that can stand the military might of this nation. With this military strength, any conflict could be solved quickly and cleanly… or could it? AS of current, there is a conflict going on the Middle East involving the Syrian Civil War, which is a war currently between syrian nationalists, the current corrupt government, and the terrorist group ISIS, along with the whole crisis being used as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran (“Syria”). All of that, plus the massive influx of syrian refugees that are currently bellowing into europe, and this crisis is one that is one that could affect the shape world for years to come. That said,
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The terrorist group known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq) was able to come into being due to the weakness of the surrounding Middle eastern countries along with U.S. hesitancy has created a group with violent plans to bring the world to islam, with fear tactics such as the Paris attacks. They have grown as a threat “as sophisticated and well funded as any group that we have seen” (Coll) “Frankly [it’s] embarrassing for the world’s superpower” says Juan Zarate of CBS Security Analyst “to say that’s where we are three plus almost four years after this conflict has begun” (Kaplan). For a while now, we have been conducting airstrikes on ISIS and have created programs to train Syrian rebels, but all of our mediocre attempts to help the situation have been “strikingly ineffective.” Unless we can produce a force that could combat the ever growing force of ISIS, the Syrian world will continue to be just as destructive to the world as …show more content…
increase its military actions in Syria. This may be due to the fact that people don’t want americans to go fight and die on Syrian soil, or that it would have bad diplomatic repercussions following putting U.S. soldiers in muslim territories. Even Ryan Mauro says that most of our troops do not want to have troops planted in Syria, saying “70% of active-duty servicemen oppose sending a “substantial number” of ground troops to assist Iraqi security forces.” But what you need to consider is what happens when the U.S. chooses not to intervene. Assad shows no sign of letting up his resigme, it being back with the support of his allies in Iran and Russia, along with the with growing terror of ISIS, and the millions that are expelled from the war-torn country. Unless the U.S. steps up its action in Syria, these will continue to
The terrorist group known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq) was able to come into being due to the weakness of the surrounding Middle eastern countries along with U.S. hesitancy has created a group with violent plans to bring the world to islam, with fear tactics such as the Paris attacks. They have grown as a threat “as sophisticated and well funded as any group that we have seen” (Coll) “Frankly [it’s] embarrassing for the world’s superpower” says Juan Zarate of CBS Security Analyst “to say that’s where we are three plus almost four years after this conflict has begun” (Kaplan). For a while now, we have been conducting airstrikes on ISIS and have created programs to train Syrian rebels, but all of our mediocre attempts to help the situation have been “strikingly ineffective.” Unless we can produce a force that could combat the ever growing force of ISIS, the Syrian world will continue to be just as destructive to the world as …show more content…
increase its military actions in Syria. This may be due to the fact that people don’t want americans to go fight and die on Syrian soil, or that it would have bad diplomatic repercussions following putting U.S. soldiers in muslim territories. Even Ryan Mauro says that most of our troops do not want to have troops planted in Syria, saying “70% of active-duty servicemen oppose sending a “substantial number” of ground troops to assist Iraqi security forces.” But what you need to consider is what happens when the U.S. chooses not to intervene. Assad shows no sign of letting up his resigme, it being back with the support of his allies in Iran and Russia, along with the with growing terror of ISIS, and the millions that are expelled from the war-torn country. Unless the U.S. steps up its action in Syria, these will continue to