compensated for the injury if the government has a good civil service economy. “In 2005, there was 864 casualties and 133 had severe burns. Enders calculated on average a person gets .26% for burns globally. Using a formula of “$5000*133*.26 and using a 5% discount rate and if the average burn victim would live to 62 years. The loss in 2005 estimated to be $2,681,700. Repeating this type of calculation for each type of disability, yielded a total of $21,622,000. Adding the loss of life to the cost of casualties yields a total of $65,093,083. This amount is only for a single year. If terrorist attacks would become a regular event in Russia it would be a huge economic burden that it would have to pay for years. When ISIS became a threat …show more content…
The loss of resources also sent Russia into an economic decline. When Ukraine became an independent country, it refused to let Russia to use the Military port at Sevastopol, which was the home of the Black Sea fleet for more than two centuries. In Georgia Russia lost an airbase called Bombura, which was the largest in the Caucasus. “Russia has worked very hard in recent years to demonstrate that it is a global power” (Oliker Olga 2015). This can be seen in Russia’s bold annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Georiga. Russia also sees itself the balance of power to counter the United States. When the civil war in Syria broke out Russia intervened in 2015 to help Assad and to protect its only naval port to the Mediterranean and its only remaining military base from the Soviet Union days. In 1970 Syria’s major naval base of “Tartus became a major port servicing warship of the Soviet Union’s Fifth Mediterranean squadron” (Peck 2017). When the Soviet Union collapsed the port of Tartus became less used. With the loss of the black fleet port in Sevastopol Putin is now focused on finding a new warm water port. In 2015 Russia assisted Assad in military and economic support. Because of this support Russia made an agreement with Assad for a “forty-nine-year agreement for Russia to use the naval port of Tartus” (Peck 2017).
Under this agreement Russia will be able to increase the maximum number of
It massive forests and frozen tundra’s have picturesque views that would astound anyone. The country has a land surface area of 6,592,735 square miles, making the largest country by land comparably to the world. Since Russia is the biggest country in the world, it has every landscape imaginable. From Lake Baikal, the biggest lake in Europe, to the Ryn desert, and the cold Siberian forests. Russia has it all when it comes to land geography. The northern part of Russia concealed with the Arctic Ocean, which is froze for the majority of the year. To the west the only way Russia has access to the Atlantic Ocean is through the Black Sea, and then through the Mediterranean Sea. Another way to access the Atlantic Ocean is through the Baltic Sea or through the Barents Sea, which is only operable in the summer, since in the winter everything over the 60-degree latitude line turns into ice. Even though Russia can access the Atlantic Ocean through the sea when you look at a map, there is two more non-geographic obstacles. The first one is that countries that are around the sea, for example, Turkey, and Denmark, which are part of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), can deny or make it hard for Russia to use those routes. NATO’s purpose is to pledge the liberty and safety of its members through military and political methods. In other words, if one NATO country takes a conflict with a non-member of NATO, then all
The continued threats of Isis are a growing foreign policy problem in the United States.
Isis Cult in Egypt and Rome The worship of Isis originated in Egypt where she held various positions and roles extending from myth describing her as sister, and wife of Osiris. These involved being mother and protector of her son Horus, symbolic mother of the king, goddess of “cosmic associations”, “great of magic”, and mourner, maintainer, and protector of the deceased (Wilkinson 2003, pp. 146-149). Knowledge of Isis spread through the contact of sailors, merchants, and soldiers (Wortham 2006, p.104), directly impacting Roman religious tradition.
Russia’s geopolitical strategic goals in the region involve exerting control over the Caucasus region, particularly energy resources, pipelines, and infrastructure. Moreover, Russia may press for the eventual annexation of several separatist territories, such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Additionally, Russia’s long-term strategic goals include preservation of their maritime dominance in the Black Sea region, home to the Russian Black Sea fleet. However, what may be the most dangerous course of action as highlighted by Cohen and Hamilton is, Russia’s intent to
Al-Qaeda is the parent to ISIS. Al-Qaeda translates to “The Fundament”. It is a multi-national radical group founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden and other militants who fought for Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. It has been labeled as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and quite a few other countries. The Sunni- Islamic group was based in Sudan for the early part of the 1990, they moved to Afghanistan somewhere around 1996 and went under the name of Taliban. The group merged with Jihad’s and later declared a holy war against the United States. The United States troops all but eliminated the group and killed its leaders while they were in Afghanistan, but with withdrawal of the troops in 2011, have regrouped and made a comeback. https://www.britannica.com/topic/al-Qaeda
After the Paris attacks men and women around the world are preparing for the start of a war. A war that will take them far from home, and could end their lives, all because of one group called ISIS. ISIS began as a group to persecute their fellow Muslims, and have since expanded their reach. Now ISIS has attacked innocent citizens of Paris. This proves that it does not matter your race, age, or faith no one is safe. The President of Paris has declared this ‘an act of war’ (Cohen). This declaration of war, allows the President of Paris to use the NATO treaty. In this treaty, if there is an attack against one country, it is against them all (Cohen). In this case Cohen is stating that North America must get involved in the ISIS situation. There is no time for words. There is only time for action. Cohen argues that there is too much at stake for everyone to sit back and wait for the opportune moment. It is time to fight. He is arguing that it is time for the United States to station troops and rid the world of ISIS.
The purpose of my paper is to construct a picture in your mind of the cult of Isis during the fourth century. In an attempt, I will describe Isis, the cult ceremonies, and the society around them dealing with the cult
In this essay I will prove why America must intervene and eliminate ISIS because ISIS is inhumane. ISIS consistently and systematically defies international law. ISIS controls governmental operations and oil land in iraq. Imagine a group of men walking into a concert and firing upon everyone in their sight for no apparent reason. ISIS has spread like a wildfire all over the world, doing whatever it takes for them to prove that they can't be stopped. In this essay it will be explained why ISIS needs to be eliminated and taken control of. Three key points will be talked about and discussed.
These days, when a news channel makes a report on a terroristic attack or issue, the anchors are most likely talking about ISIS. If a poll was given across the U.S asking what people thought of when they thought of modern terrorism, the majority would say ISIS. If that same poll was given before the rise of ISIS, however, the obvious answer would be Al Qaeda. Throughout the 2000’s, Al Qaeda and terrorism were synonymous terms. One could not have one without the other. So, the question must arise: What happened to Al Qaeda? This question is easier asked than answered. Al Qaeda rose to power through the late twentieth and early twenty-first century very effectively and rapidly, but they lost that power just as quickly by divisions in violent Islamic radicalism.
The second phase: Planning to establish Al-Qaeda had began in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the nineties of the last century, and it was remarkable there were some operations of Al-Qaeda organization before actually inception., such as:
1,922 people. According to the Huffington Post, that is the number of people killed by ISIS in June 2014 (Wing). ISIS is a dangerous force in the world, and the United States has a moral obligation to end its rule. ISIS has threatened America many times, it has killed thousands of innocent people, and its extreme wealth is allowing the organization to continue the attacks. The U.S. has a duty to itself, and to the rest of the world, to stop the brutal regime of ISIS. America needs to increase its military action against ISIS so that it can protect the people of the world.
On the surface, both ISIS and Taliban appear to be very similar, but in reality, the only commonality shared by both groups is that they are Sunni Islamic fundamentalists. ISIS is a militant group that follows an extremist and minoritarian interpretation of Islam and promotes religious violence. The main aim of ISIS is to create a word wide caliphate led by a supreme religious leader called a caliph, who is believed to be the successor of Prophet Muhammad. All Muslims should pledge allegiance to the Caliphate. As of December 2015, the IS controls a landlocked territory incorporating western Iraq and eastern Syria. It is believed to be operational in 18 countries worldwide, including Afghanistan and Pakistan.
So far the US has sent around 5,600 trainers, commandos and troops to aid in the fight against ISIS. However more troops are needed, ISIS currently has around 22,000 fighters and even with some local fighters backing the US there are not enough combatants to beat ISIS. The US and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) nations need to send more ground troops, trainers and commandos to Iraq in order to beat ISIS. These troops are necessary send a message to our troops and the world, liberate Mosul and neutralize ISIS so that the organization can not continue to expand and attack us at home.
The record of our nation's response to the threat of political violence is unfortunately one of repeated infringements on the First Amendment and other constitutional principles. The Supreme Court has acknowledged that history abundantly documents the tendency of Government has benevolent and began its motives to show suspicion those who most fervently dispute its policies. This is by no means a problem unique to the United States. Our constitutional commitment to political and religious freedom has not protected us from recurring official abuses. With confounding regularity, our government has, in the name of protecting national security, subverted the very rights and liberties which make the defense of the Nation worthwhile. The Federal
Throughout the current era in America, Islam, the third most practiced religion in the World, has been misunderstood and imprecisely defined in American culture, presenting a pressing issue for Muslim-Americans resulting in discrimination socioculturally. Americans are ignorant as to comprehend the definition of the Islamic term, Jihad, clouding their judgment into accepting the culture of Muslims living beside them. Merriam Dictionary defines jihad as a holy war waged as the religious duty in the name of Islam, but “just north of ten percent of Muslims worldwide support and sanction religiously motivated violence against civilians.” As a result, Americans have unlawfully punished the victims themselves for hate crimes and inhumane discrimination due to radicals taking the term far more literally than intended (Source 2 and 4). The word is translated into English as to strive, struggle or effort, but due to the misinterpretation of the scripture, wars are waged by eminent Islamic terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda. Efforts conducted by the Islamic Supreme Council of America to exemplify Jihad's intended translation are still in effect by educating and patient examination of the error of the poor definition to drive of naive Americans and extreme Muslims practitioners into peace. Jihad must be redefined in Western Culture to more efficiently accommodate to the religious explanation to a holy war within oneself as well as other Muslims, and not a declaration of war in