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ISIS: Radical Terrorist Groups In The United States

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For the past few years, the terrorist group ISIS has made headlines around the world with their acts of terror and rapid spread. Naturally, people all over the Earth have called for the obliteration of ISIS, and many have looked to the US for action. The question that prevails the most: should the US put soldiers in Syria to try and directly destroy this radical terrorist group? The safest, most reliable answer is an emphatic no, the US should not put "boots on the ground" against ISIS.
A key reason against putting "boots on the ground" to fight ISIS is that it might very well backfire. ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban gain support and increase their numbers by fostering resentment against the West. In the same way the Muslims feel …show more content…

An occupying force is needed to make sure the group never returns. It's easy for the big leaders of these organizations to hide, gathering resources and accumulating more followers, biding their time until they can come back out and retake power, once the boots have left (4). And as mentioned before, soldiers from other countries grow support for terrorist group, as it allows them to channel anti-West resentment. It is necessary for the military to stay and occupy, in order to make sure that the group doesn't return, or another one isn't created. For example, let's look at the Taliban. The US-led attack went in with the goal of toppling its despotic regime and giving power back to the Afghani people. Once the goal was met, the Taliban scattered, and a new Afghani government in place, the US pulled out. As soon as the Americans were gone, the Taliban resurged, feeding off the hate of America, and now controls more Afghani territory than at any time in their entire history (1). Why? Because knowing that they had seen the last of us, (at least for a while) they knew that there was nothing to prevent them from rising again. Now let's look at the other side, that "boots on the ground" need to stay there in order to prevent another organization from rising. It is well known that President-Elect Donald Trump once made the claim that President Obama was the founder of ISIS. He maintains that because Obama …show more content…

This is because they are completely surrounded by enemies who hate them, the Kurds, the Iranians, the Sunni countries, even Al Qaeda (1). ISIS is hopelessly outnumbered by all its enemies, who on top of everything, have almost every Western power backing them up. ISIS has lost 40% of its formerly controlled land in Iraq, and a "sizable amount" of its territory in Syria (2). "Boots on the ground" aren't necessary. ISIS has no outside help or funding, is surrounded by enemies, and hated by all. This horrible list of odds stacked against them means that they are going to fizzle out, smothered by their enemies and the hate of the Western world. We shouldn't fear ISIS coming to America. They have no capability of doing so. The two ISIS-inspired attacks in Orlando and San Bernardino were only inspired by ISIS, they had no connection to the organization and were done by people who believed the ISIS propaganda (3). Because of this, the real fight shouldn't be against the organization, but the spreading ideology. We need to make sure ISIS's propaganda is blocked and refuted, and we also need to teach people that ISIS is a false perversion of Islam. With the organization scattered, and the ideology destroyed, ISIS will truly be

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