The conflict in Syria between the people and Bashar al-Assad’s government, which began in 2011, continues to grow and more than four million Syrians have fled their homeland. The west had been playing a significant role in the Syrian conflict until acts of terror from groups like the IS started happening. Now the west has started to rethink their involvement with the conflict. Keeping in mind that the United States is already in debt and we don’t want to lose the lives of more innocent Americans and Syrian people, America should avoid going to war. America, as well as Europe, should instead continue being involved with Syria by allowing more Syrian refugees in.
Important to realize, the Islamic State has become a national insurgency and is now one of the most known terror organizations in the world. Their rise is related to its belief that the apocalypse is coming (source H). They believe this final battle
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These people and their families fleeing from the dangerous and violent warzones in Syria are not likely to move to a new country to cause problems. “When allowed to work, they tend to start businesses and integrate themselves into the work force as fast as possible paying more into the social systems than they extract from them” (source E). These people who leave their country are often people with degrees and careers that want a safe place to continue working. The European Union is a well-organized and fully functional nation that could greatly help out refugees and they’d be benefiting from it as well. “It can handle the challenge of the refugees if it wants to (source E). Currently, about 31 states in the United States are opposed to letting in refugees in. America’s economy isn’t as good as Europe’s but it still is capable enough of helping more people into the country if we lower the number of states against