Summary: Fight Against ISIS Is Intensifying By Ash Carter
1) “Ash Carter: Fight Against ISIS Is Intensifying.” CBSNews. CBS Interactive, n.d. Web. 30 Oct. 2015.
The article critically analyzes the current situation of the fight against ISIS, with a discussion based on the opinion of Ash Carter, a Defense Secretary Agent. His suggestions include more ground missions and raids as the situation is intensifying. However, it is interesting that even though Carter believes ISIS has to be defeated through military means, Syria still is a key country in the future and he is not on
Assad’s side. Initially, the US was fighting against Assad but as the ISIS issue intensified, they decided that the threat is much more important than future interests - at least at the moment.
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His stance is supported throughout the article with the help of credible references and citations. For example, he cites a renowned social psychologist, Albert Bandura, stating that “it requires conducive social conditions rather than monstrous people to produce atrocious deeds. Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.” He constantly references different points of view and adds that some believe the roots of jihadist terrorism lie not in Islam but in the injustices of the West. I picked this article because I feel like the author, even though a professor at a western university, he doesn’t present the issue as black or white. He looks at different perspectives as he understands terrorism is a complex issue and I don’t sense a lot of bias within the …show more content…
Even though ISIS was formally formed in 2013, the article explains the path before that - the idea started from a known violent figure, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who initially set-up a camp for training terrorists and also met Osama bin Laden in 1999. He chose not to join al-Qaeda and wanted to start his own group, and after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, he set-up the predecessor of what is now ISIS. Baghdadi, initially just the leader of the State of Iraq, followed Zarqwai’s tactics and then opened a second front on the Shiite in Syria, where there were many riots against Assad. Soon after that, Baghdadi changed the name of ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) to ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and
The article critically analyzes the current situation of the fight against ISIS, with a discussion based on the opinion of Ash Carter, a Defense Secretary Agent. His suggestions include more ground missions and raids as the situation is intensifying. However, it is interesting that even though Carter believes ISIS has to be defeated through military means, Syria still is a key country in the future and he is not on
Assad’s side. Initially, the US was fighting against Assad but as the ISIS issue intensified, they decided that the threat is much more important than future interests - at least at the moment.
I chose this source because …show more content…
His stance is supported throughout the article with the help of credible references and citations. For example, he cites a renowned social psychologist, Albert Bandura, stating that “it requires conducive social conditions rather than monstrous people to produce atrocious deeds. Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.” He constantly references different points of view and adds that some believe the roots of jihadist terrorism lie not in Islam but in the injustices of the West. I picked this article because I feel like the author, even though a professor at a western university, he doesn’t present the issue as black or white. He looks at different perspectives as he understands terrorism is a complex issue and I don’t sense a lot of bias within the …show more content…
Even though ISIS was formally formed in 2013, the article explains the path before that - the idea started from a known violent figure, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who initially set-up a camp for training terrorists and also met Osama bin Laden in 1999. He chose not to join al-Qaeda and wanted to start his own group, and after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, he set-up the predecessor of what is now ISIS. Baghdadi, initially just the leader of the State of Iraq, followed Zarqwai’s tactics and then opened a second front on the Shiite in Syria, where there were many riots against Assad. Soon after that, Baghdadi changed the name of ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) to ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and