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United States Response To ISIS Essay

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The United States’ response to ISIS Barack Obama stated “Let's not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear; that we have always met challenges — whether war or depression; natural disasters or terrorist attacks — by coming together around our common ideals as one nation, as one people," he said. "So long as we stay true to that tradition, I have no doubt America will prevail.” Some Americans consider the United States' response to ISIS to be effective, however other Americans disagree and favor the use of another tactic on stopping this terrorist organization According to Peled ISIS is a terrorist organization that branched away from an Iraqi based Al-Qaida cell. ISIS’ main purpose as a terrorist organization is to create a pure …show more content…

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Complex in Central Ramadi" the Iraqi military has advanced towards ISIS' central location taking away land from ISIS. One more way that the United States' plan can be considered effective is that America is assisting allies fight ISIS. Assisting allies is another way to help remove soldiers from the ground. Calamur states the United States will deploy 250 troops to assist forces in Mosul, Iraq. These reasons show that America’s current plan helps keep American soldiers off the ground and destroy ISIS’ land and strongholds. On the other hand many argue the United States should attempt another tactic. One argument to change is United States’ air campaign has no way of differentiating civilians and terrorist. As of August of 2015, 459 civilians have been killed by air strikes (Ross). This death rate could be drastically lowered if soldiers were placed on the ground where they can make decisions to eliminate a threat or let a mother and her child live. Another reason America’s tactic should be changed is that ISIS still has a major influence over the world and they still are in control. For example since September 23, 2014 ISIS has inspired or contributed to over 90 terrorist attacks around the world such as the attacks in Paris and Brussels (Yournish, Watkins, and Giratikanon). Another argument that the United States should change their plan to fight these terrorist is innocent people in the Middle East are

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