ISIS Quotes

When the United States seized control over Iraq, many Iraqi citizens were left without a job. As a result of this widespread unemployment, recruitment for Muslim extremist groups thrived. Lt. General Michael Flynn, a key figure of the War, has admitted “As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him.” Flynn went on to say. “The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that

Dictatorships are corrupt, but jihadist terrorist groups are far more destructive. Could it have been failed regime change which created a political vacuum that enabled ISIS to seize power? Critical mistakes made by America helped to construct the malicious growth of ISIS which in turn, suggests this was indeed the case. The theoretical idea that America has established international conflicts which sparked the rise of Isis is relevant to today’s world. Regardless of the fact that this is a controversial topic, it is hazardous to the numerous lives around the globe.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, popularly known as ISIS and Daesh, is the 21st centuries rising global threat to humanity. The world has united to reduce and ultimately prevent genocide. In the paper ISIS will be referenced as Daesh. The initial part of the essay will cover Daesh origins, ideology, goals, and objectives. It is essential to know the similarities of the present Daesh brutalities and historic barbarisms of Wahhabism. The rest of the essay will focus on leadership, funding, and capabilities, such as physical bases support locations. The conclusion will attempt to raise concern of the internal threat within the United States. This essay will be limited to sources not having access to restricted or classified information. The closing goal of this essay is to embolden the serious threat to the United States and other countries seeking pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

“Sixteen years ago, the United States wasn’t officially engaged in any wars. Few of us had ever heard of al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden, and ISIS didn’t even exist. Less than a month after 9/11, U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to dismantle al-Qaeda — the terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks — and remove the Taliban government harboring it. Two years later, in March 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and deposed President Saddam Hussein. Although not directly linked to the terrorist attacks, Hussein was suspected of producing weapons of mass destruction (none were ever found).

The US stationed troops in Iraq from 2003 to 2001, and “encouraged the establishment of what was supposed to be a democratic national Shi’ite regime headed by Nouri al-Maliki. However, the regime alienated the Sunni population, which had traditionally controlled the country” (“The Historical Roots and Stages in the Development of ISIS”). In essence, America failed to establish a new political order in Iraq while also alienating the Sunni population. There was no stable, effective, and supportive government regime. Even when the US was occupying Iraq, ISIS had already began to build up power.

Over the past summer, a media firestorm began when a radical Islamic group came to the four fronts of our headlines. Under their raised black flag, the Islamic state of Iraq and Levant is a deathly cult, which has taken over vast territory in Iraq and Syria. They have instituted extreme law including broadcasting beheadings and public executions, to violence against women, and recruiting westerners. In this paper we will explore the complex origins of this terrorist group and attempt to explain how ISIS lures hundreds and maybe thousands of westerns to join their army. Finally we will explore what the United States should do in this military situation.

Since the brutalizing attacks that occurred in the United States on September 11, 2001, terrorist groups such as al Qaeda, and its subdivision turned adversary - the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria - which we affectionately refer to as ISIS, have metastasized into a worldwide threat that has shaken our way of life, our culture, and our approach to our opponents (Kohlmann). From 2013 to 2014 there was a whopping 35% increase in terrorism with attacks in 95 countries, proving that despite the valiant counterattacks, terrorism will not go down without a fight (Williams). Of course, the United States did declare a “war on terror” that despite many cons did result in the ultimate pro - the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda and mastermind behind many terrorist attacks, including 9/11 (Shah). All casualties aside, the death of bin Laden, and more specifically the means by which his

After reading the assigned resources given to me, I have come to the personal conclusion that the ISIS is an actual threat to the United States and its allies. As stated in the article “What ISIS really wants” written by Graeme Woods “Our failure to appreciate the split between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the essential differences between the two, has led to dangerous decisions. Last fall, to take one example, the U.S. government consented to a desperate plan to save Peter Kassig’s life. The plan facilitated—indeed, required—the interaction of some of the founding figures of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and could hardly have looked more hastily improvised.” As clearly stated above, the split was a very dangerous in decision making.

From the time when the United States invaded Iraq eleven years ago, a noxious insurgence aeriated at numerous customs of conflict which has attested irrepressible, malleable, and tenacious strive to convey on hostility. A nation of Saddam and al-Zarqawi, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) reins a third of conjointly Syria and Iraq in its charisma avowed bravura of war. Around the beginning of 2010, U.S. and Iraqi forces destroyed two topmost al-Qaeda and Iraq frontrunners; which then sanctioned Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to become the spearhead of an assemblage destabilized by a strenuous operation directed at culminating a Sunni uprising in the country (CNN, 2015). By virtually all provision, Iraq is entangled in civil war. In addition, ISIS has engrossed nearly twelve thousand supporters from overseas already and at least three thousand devotees are from the West (Feroli & Dulin, 2013).

Over the last several years, the number of people who tell pollsters that they are Iraqis first and foremost has plummeted. Vastly outnumbered fighters for the Islamic State keep beating the Iraqi Army in places like Ramadi because the ISIS terrorists believe in their lunatic philosophy while the Iraqi soldiers no longer believe in their own leadership and are not willing to risk their lives for a dysfunctional, centralized state. This attempt to impose top­down solutions, combined with President Obama’s too­fast withdrawal from Iraq, has contributed to the fertile conditions for the rise of ISIS. Obama properly vowed to eradicate this terrorist force, but the U.S. is failing to do so.

In this essay the topic of should the West be blamed for the terror that ISIS is spreading throughout Iraq in away will be discussed as well as what role the US has played and how they are still contributing to ISIS. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria also known as ISIS used a different name in Iraq where they were known as al-Qaeda. During the “surge” in 2006 US troops defeated al-Qaeda but they did not destroy them then in 2011 the group began again and ISIS freed a large amount of prisoners which were held by the Iraq Government and used them to slowly start rebuilding their strength. ISIS and al-Qaeda separated in February 2014 and since then ISIS have been controlling a great percentage of Northern Syria and Western Iraq.

On September 11th 2001, America experienced the most catastrophic terrorist attack on its home soil in the history of the country. The men responsible for this event hailed from Middle Eastern countries and identified as Islamic extremists. Two years after the attack, former president George W. Bush, announced that the United States would declare war on the terrorism and on the nations in the Middle East that harbored the terrorists group Al-Qaeda. The men at the top of this organization have been taken out of power and Al-Qaeda’s influence and leaders have been silenced to a certain extent. However, the United States still faces resistance in this unstable region and a new terrorist organization, ISIS, has appeared and is showing the

Contorno pointed out that critics of President Obama (POTUS) have taken exception to his “JV” remark (in reference to ISIS), wherein he stated, “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” Contorno went on to add that the comment originated in a profile of Obama by Editor David Remnick, published in The New Yorker on Jan. 27, 2014. In it, Remnick also wrote, “In the 2012 campaign, Obama spoke not only of killing Osama bin Laden; he also said that Al Qaeda had been ‘decimated.’”1

Founded as the Islamic state of Iraq, ISIS has grown to power overtime as a nation through the use hegemonic masculinity. A splinter group of Al Qaeda, “ISIS aimed to unite one Islamic state under a dictator-like Muslim leader called a caliphate” (CNN). Through the use of social media and large global terrorist attacks, ISIS has gained power and new recruits. Over the past ten years the expansion of the nation-state has increased in size and power. The formation and development of the nation-state of ISIS is greatly influenced by hegemonic masculinity. The nation-state of ISIS if formed by social, political, and economic settings. These settings are shaped and affect by western hegemonic ideas of masculinity.

Does the ISIS phenomenon challenge the construct of the Middle East, and America’s imperial ambitions? My argument is that neo-colonial relations - between the United States and the Arab world – is responsible for the radicalization of terrorist, particularly ISIS. Considering America’s involvement in the construction of the modern Middle East, and its continued involvement in the region.