Persuasive Essay On Syrian Civil War

JESSE HODGSON, GRADE 12 ENGLISH

ENGLISH PERSUASIVE ESSAY

TOPIC: SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS

FORMAT: PERSUASIVE

AUDIENCE: WESTERN COUNTRIES

PURPOSE: TO PERSUADE THOSE IN WESTERN COUNTRIES THAT THE ONLY EFFECTIVE WAY THE SYRIAN CRISIS WILL END IS THROUGH MILITARY MAN-POWER

The Crisis in Syria – both the civil war and humanitarian issue – has been raging on for five years. Despite an overabundance of humanitarian efforts that are actively trying to extinguish the social, cultural, and civil fires burning, the plethora of issues don’t seem to be nearing closure. This is incredibly disturbing. The longer the dispute continues on, the more issues arise in countries taking in refugees, the stronger and bolder ISIS becomes, and the more casualties will

This isn’t effective. They send salvo-after-salvo into the streets, and expect ISIS to scamper back into their holes, never to be seen again. They are wrong. Airstrikes are not accurate enough to use against an enemy that isn’t always discernable, and are not a practical medium to try to extinguish all of ISIS. The only way that can happen is if boots were to hit the sand, and small arms were to replace the mighty rockets. If this were to happen, not only would routing ISIS from the foothold they have in Syria be a legitimate possibility, but the accidental fire missions by the west, and the not-so-accidental fire missions by the east that target civilians would be relatively non-existent. Only one thing can couple pin-point accuracy with the practicality of wiping out an army of heavily-equipped militants: another army.

ISIS will not simply lay down their terrorist-arms if every last Syrian leaves as a refugee. They will continue to gain in strength, confidence, and number until they are finally stopped. If that never happens – and it won’t if the only offense the rest of the world offers is an airstrike or two – ISIS will grow unchallenged until they pose a real threat to, quite possibly, claim all of Syria. The only way this growing force will be stopped is if a force stronger confront them in way of battle. The lives of hundreds of thousands depend on the world’s militaries to take action and do what they were formed to do: not only to protect their respective country’s sovereignty, but the sovereignty of allies and friends around the globe. ISIS, on principle alone, cannot be allowed to continue operations, and when you consider that every moment wasted leads to ISIS killing and displacing thousands, it becomes apparent that ISIS has to be