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Isis Pros And Cons

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"We're looking for opportunities to do more, and there will be boots on the ground, and I want to be clear about that", Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said about defeating ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Because my partners and I agree with Secretary of Defense Carter, we stand in support of the resolution, Resolved: The US should declare war on ISIS. It is important that the US government does anything and everything to keep the people it governs over safe. With ISIS’s terrorist acts now spreading across Europe and with ISIS-inspired attacks here in America, the threat is growing each and every day. The 3 main contentions we have to stand by this resolution include: 1. The San Bernardino attack—the deadliest Islamic assault on US soil since the September 11 …show more content…

ISIS’s death toll has skyrocketed since 2014. The first argument is that The San Bernardino attack—the deadliest Islamist assault on the homeland since the September 11 attacks 14 years ago, has proved that ISIS is in America. Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, who shot at Farook's co-workers at a party in San Bernardino, had stockpiled assault weapons, ammunition, and pipe bombs. So, this was an act of terrorism, designed to kill innocent people. 14 people were left dead. The second argument is that ISIS is in America, and will continue to grow. 82 people have been accused by the FBI of trying to help/join the Islamic State as of February, 2016. According to charges filed by the FBI: 28 of the accused took steps to carry out an attack. 2 actually carried out an attack in San Bernardino, Calif., in December of 2015, killing 14, with an additional 22 people wounded. 3 of the 82 joined the Islamic State in Syria (not including the man and woman who carried out the San Bernardino attack). ISIS is recruiting, in the U.S., at about three-times the rate of Al Qaeda. As of November 15, 2014, ISIS’s militant population was at least 200,000 according to a senior Kurdish

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