The Middle East Is Crumbling, And America Is At Fault

In 2016, there has been a recorded estimate of 450,000 casualties in that year, with the majority being their own civilians. The numerous amounts of air strikes caused by the US and Russia had caused more damage and death then there already was.

The US is taking revenge on the terrorists that attacked the US World Trade Center, Pentagon, the field in Pennsylvania. Countries are attacking their own people. Leaders of the US feel it is necessary to get rid of the violence-seeking people that attack the innocent people. The people of the Middle East are immigrating to different, but has a safe population. Although the civilian population of the US feel the government needs to take troops back home. Civilians believe the violence that is happening in the Middle East. The government of the US takes action on the countries associated with the terrorists of the Middle East. Reacting to the violence is one idea military leaders say could resolve the conflict. This is the only way to get to war without killing innocent civilians. Using force to overthrow the cruelty of the terrorists is a priority for the safety of the US citizens. This will involve the military leaders to keep the citizens of the US

Likewise, there are several instances in which the Unites States has stepped in to alleviate foreign crises. Mullaney expresses that in 2014, air strikes were launched to help the Yazidi people, and other countries have agreed to help with combat, but they are waiting on America to make the move towards war; while President Obama has been submitting requests to send out troops, nothing has been approved yet (125, 128). The United States needs to have approval to launch troops to help the Yazidi people. Mullaney is insistent that the U.S. must provide more than just air strikes in order to help the Yazidis. While some feel that it is not the United States’ responsibility, ISIS cannot be stopped alone. On the contrary, the author includes

supplied weapons in Yemen has resulted in the death of thousands of civilians, but there is no

One of the most heartbreaking sights was the image of a family with four children sheltering in a bunker as an incessant shower of bombs destroyed their home and nearby buildings. Exiting the bunker only brought forth even more sickening images as the family watched their neighbors being carried away on stretchers. This scene was one of the many portrayed by the media on the conflict between Israel and Gaza. Not much later my TV screen was taken over by the images of Liberia and the sickly patients diagnosed with Ebola aching for help knowing that there wasn’t any help coming. Unable to watch these stomach churning events unfold, I quickly changed the channel only to be faced with the news of yet another beheading of a westerner at the hands of Isis terrorists. Most Americans oppose the idea of America being “The World’s Policeman” because the title assumes immense responsibility. According to the Politico Poll presented by CNN, a staggering 67% of Americans believe that we shouldn’t get involved in foreign issues while 20% believe the U.S has a responsibility to use its military to protect democracy and peace. In the midst of deepening violence

This Invasion started with stealth planes dropping “Precision bombs”. They were not really precision bombs because in the documentary Why we fight it said out of the bombs dropped in the first six months none of them hit their intended target. These bombs instead came down on civilians. The US claims we are there to free them, but are we really? If we want to save them from destruction why are we destroying them ourselves? As the death toll rises anger swells to the surface and that anger is turned into Anti-American terrorist groups. The Anti-American movement sweeps over the country and our solution is to drop more bombs. “ The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar began flying in fighters, weapons and equipment to turn the Syrian Spring into a bloody civil war. Once they had overthrown the government of Libya, at the cost of 25,000 to 50,000 lives, they began adapting the same strategy to Syria, despite knowing full well that this would be a much more drawn-out, destructive and bloody war” (Davies). We feel the need to spread our culture to other countries in a wicked form of imperialism. We say ‘we want to bring them freedom, save them with democracy.’; Although, are we really saving them? Their governments run just fine, our interventions are for our gain. We have certain beliefs, but that does not mean we must force them upon countries we see as

In an effort to thwart United States airstrikes against key areas, such as Ramadi, The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commonly known as ISIS, are increasing the use of human shields. ISIS terrorists are strapping innocent civilians, especially women and children, to the front of their tanks and using them as escorts to circumvent the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s rules of engagement. (Brennan, 2015) The United States’ goal is to restrict the amount of collateral damage, which is code for restricting the amount of innocent lives lost due to United States bombs. If the U.S. and our allies refuse to kill innocent people the terrorists will continue to kill soldiers. If the U.S. and our Allies begin to purposefully kill innocent people to advance our cause, how is the U.S. different from ISIS?

Many Americans are not informed about what is happening around the world. Something we should all be aware of is how the Islamic state has affected Iraq so much for so many years. A lot of innocent people have died because of this war and innocent people keep suffering. A lot of people in Iraq are starving without having somewhere safe to live. The United States doesn’t get affected by this until I.S. threaten us.

The Middle East is infamous for its brutal religion-based society, and it has held this reputation for well over the past thousand years. Due to its close proximity to the Middle East, Europe has developed a tendency to attempt to control and force the Middle East into a mold that they considered civilized and ideal. Although a modern war such as the Soviet War in Afghanistan, at first glance, seems to have very little in common with the First Crusade, from the circumstances surrounding the two conflicts, the two sides involved, and the difficulties that the invaders faced the two wars are surprisingly very akin to each other.

The war has been going on for over 15 years and has made no progress. “ Here our nation stands, engaged military in half a dozen countries across the Greater Middle East, with no end in sight “ (Sjursen 2017). Thus, America is trying to figure out how to banish terrorism in the Middle East, but have seen no progress. Meanwhile, as the main super power of the world, America is practically entitled to protecting the less fortunate countries. “ The United States repeatedly intervened, to save the feeble Old World from militarism, fascism, and communism” (Sjursen 2017). The U.S. saved the countries of the Middle East from the terrorists’ counties, but Russia is still invading. Therefore, Russia is going to start World War III. “ The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan represented blatant conquest…a possible path to World War III “ (Sjursen 2017). The questions are asked about World War III, and it seems that they will be answered soon. The Americans have got themselves in a big problem that they cant escape.

boots on the ground” (Cook, 2009).This evidence shows that it has been 10 years, and yet they are still here, and growing. This means that airstrikes are not helping much. Think of World War II. We needed to put so many troops on the ground to win Normandy. It should be the same for ISIS. We have to lose troops to win the bigger war. We will not be be to lose one or two troops to win the battle on terrorism. Also,ISIS is clever, they have secret strongholds and they claim responsibility for attacks even if it wasn’t them. This is meant to throw terrorism experts off. “They want to go back and reject modernity, well I think we should help them. We shall kill them until they retreat back to the stone age.” (How to Defeat ISIS: The Case for U.S. Ground Forces, 2011.) They want to kill them. The US leaders want a quick, and virtually foolproof way to kill ISIS. The leaders do not want gimmicks, they want quick and thorough. ISIS is getting stronger, and soon airstrikes will waste money and not achieve

Since september no territory has been taken back from ISIS. With that information all the attacks missiles and bombings seem useless. Close to 1,100 airstrikes have been carried out by the U.S. The U.S plans to launch a militia training campaign in Syria to help fight ISIS but they are holding it off till next year. Although you can argue that we don’t need to risk our troops lives in this battle but think the people who they will be training have families too and unlike our troops they won’t be paid. They won’t be able to help feed and protect their families and if they die they won’t get a huge honorable burial only what their family can

This war cost the American economy billions of dollars, and the military expenditures rise dramatically to cover the wars waged by the US in the name of ‘war on terror’. This ongoing war started less than month after 911 attacks on US when the US troops invaded Afghanistan to retaliate the Taliban government for harboring al-Qaeda and to dismantle that organization to prevent her from executing more attacks on American soil. Although the American troops withdraw officially from Afghanistan in 2014, yet American forces still fighting in a military involvement that turned into the longest running war in the history of the United States. Two years later, although not directly linked to the terrorist attacks, the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, and disposed of President Saddam Hussein, suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction. The immense failure of that campaign led to chaos and civil war that cost millions of victims and refugees . And to make matters worse, the American forces withdrawal in 2011 left the nation in a far more volatile situation with the birth of the most brutal terrorist

For many centuries, the Middle East has been facing many challenges. It all began in the 17th century, when the Middle Eastern Empires lost control. The greatest crises the government faced during the 17th century was the spark of inflation, which was due to many factors, such as an increase in population, government over spending on military, and buildings, the debasement of currencies, and most importantly politics. Like then, today majority of challenges that Middle East is facing is caused by the actions committed by politicians, take Iraq for example. Iraq is built on a sea of oil, yet we find many people there dying of hunger, or being homeless, but at the same time we find the politicians and their surroundings, living a luxurious lives;

Terrorism in Syria has been quite horrific especially for the Syrian civilians to the extent to which one can refer to it as a melee. ISIS, the U.S., Russia and the Syrian government itself have committed atrocities against Syrian civilians. The Syrian Government which is not the sole offender in the Syrian war, however, did use chemical weapons in its capital of Aleppo against its own protesting civilians (Luther, 2016). In response of the use of chemical weapons being used the U.S. decided to intervene since they deemed it necessary to uphold moral standards. Despite the U.S. reasoning and intentions for entering Syria and training rebel forces to combat Assad the Syrian leader their plan ultimately fails once part of the U.S. backed Syrian Rebels joins with Al-Qaida affiliates in Iraq and forms ISIS (The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) who decides attack another group in Syria called the Kurds and the same Rebel group that are still being backed the U.S.