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Terrorism is consistently turning into an across-the-board event on the planet today in causing obliteration and mass pandemonium and is getting progressively comfortable with the advantages of innovation. Picking up a reputation through online networking and cutting-edge innovation is additionally only one of the various manners by which fear-based oppressors undermine and trigger confusion in these advanced occasions (“ISIS and American foreign policy,” 2016).
Terrorism can be partitioned into a few classes, with strict terrorism oppression developing as the most predominant and deadly type of fear-based oppression, considering strict aficionados have no shame in performing appallingly follows up based on trust.
Some of the significant challenges that African and Middle East countries are struggling with include terror attacks. Countries like Kenya, Nigeria, and Somalia have experienced a series of terror attacks in the past five years in universities and major shopping malls claiming the lives of hundreds of people.
In Africa and the Middle East, the ungoverned areas are a suitable training ground for the terrorists, for instance, in the West African countries where the Isis and al-Qaeda have worked collaboratively to further their terror attacks, which is not common in other parts. Severe terror attacks have been witnessed in Middle East countries such as Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Afghanistan (“Terrorist Attacks on the Rise throughout the Region,” n.d.).
One thing that all people in the affected regions seem to concur with is that such terror attacks will continue to increase in the future as long as the governments and local political arenas in the areas remain to be fractured and as long as the government policies adopted remain to be confrontational rather than arbitrative and cooperative in dispute resolutions (Chaliand & Blin, 2016).
The main focus of this essay will be on ISIS and why its terror activities remain to be a threat in the USA, coupled with policy recommendations of handling this issue.
Isis is a Sunni jihadist group that is characterized by particularly violent ideologies which call itself a caliphate with the RAND terrorist experts having analyzed the groups’ sources finance, management, and structure, its exploitation of the social media for recruitment and raising of funds and the instability spawned by the group in the middle east as a regional challenge and its potential threats to the USA.
The Isis communication strategy is characterized by a multi-layered, dynamic approach which targets masses of audiences while exploiting diverse means and narrative in communicating. Isis remains to be a global threat as its communication strategies are more complicated with its oils going beyond aims of other Islamism groups like al Qaeda, for instance, the persuading of all Muslims in battling as a means of restoring a caliphate as a religious duty (Chaliand & Blin, 2016).
The government of the United States of America has understated the imminent threat posed to America through arguments that they lack credible information that would justify that Isis in planning attacks on the USA. In August 2014, pentagon spokesperson john Kirby argued that the defense department did not believe in the capabilities of the ISIS to perpetrate terror attacks in the USA.
These proponents are similar to those of the former USA president Barrack Obama as he once stated that while authorizing the escalation of war into Syria, “we have not yet detected any specific plotting of Isis attacks against our homeland.” However, in the year 2015, Francis X Tylor argued that they are unaware of any specific, credible, and imminent threats to our homeland (“ISIS and American foreign policy,” 2016).
The fact that America is in the war front fighting against Isis in Syria is a bright idea that Isis can take vengeful actions against America. The amount of money and technology available to the Isis can allow it to be selective in the recruitments for and preparing sophisticated attacks plots from its safer haven without needing each one to succeed, which are indicators that are the real cause for concern.
It would be reasonable to suggest that Isis significantly differs from other terrorist groups like al-Shabab and has more power posing the greater danger of attacks in the American homeland. It would be worth noting that the United States of America doe very little in tracking the jihadist fighters (“ISIS and American foreign policy,” 2016).
It would be critical to acknowledge that most attacks may not call for vast sums of money hence arguing that Isis is not financially stable to perpetrate attacks in the USA is an understatement of the imminent threat. Even though Abu Bark al-Baghdadi has been killed in the era of Donald Trump, his Islamic state terrorist group remains to be alive and has means to thrive.
The Isis still possesses formidable strategic capabilities and resources that make it to remain an enduring threat to the United States of America. Statistics demonstrate that the Isis terrorist group is estimated to boast a force of at least 40,000 foreign fighters drawn from various nations like Russia, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia (Guinta, 2016). This cohort remains to be active even today.
United States government acknowledges that the group has over 20,000 active fighters at its disposal which indicate that the generation of radical could be bolstered in the years to come as they are incubated in enclaves like Syria AL HAWL REFUGEE CAMP. The fact that the ISIS terrorist group has been able to dominate places like Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Philippine with the group’s potential of coming back to the Middle East, indicating that the group is potentially capable of perpetrating attacks in America.
Donald Trump has made a withdrawal from Syria through the belief that the destruction of the physical Isis caliphate would be enough victory to turn the page on the war on terror. Considering the American mission and counterterrorism war accomplished is a sure means for the strengthening of the Isis terror group.
The scarcity of terrorist attacks on America in the recent past is the basis of America belief that we are safe and that days of mass casualty attacks are in history (“Understanding terrorism,” n.d.). However, history is an excellent way of foretelling the future.
Americans are paying insufficient attention to unprecedented events in hitch Isis, and other terrorist groups can inflict serious harm to the USA economy. The USA should take a strategic step in supporting its allies in the Middle East in the fight against terror groups since failure to do so will have significant global impacts on the economies.
Isis and other assorted groups have the potential of destabilizing the global oil supply, with the United States being a primary victim. The lessons of failure to take a long-term reaction to threats will lead to the USA and other countries paying a terrible price.
In deciding on the action to take, the government of the United States ought to consider the proposed measures in light of its broader foreign policy. It would be critical to note that American troops have been in combat longer than another country with USA Special Forces being deployed to more than 133 nations.
The US is overly investing in compacting Isis in Iraq but fails to do the same in Syria and spends trillions of dollars in such battles, which can have detrimental impacts on the USA economy. It would be advisable to employ other tacks that could deter the root cause of the emergence of the terror groups, such as the heightened disagreements between the Shia and the Sunnis, which indicate that the ISI is an outcome of the populations that is torn between religious and cultural allegiances.
America is losing it, soldiers, in battlefields in Syria and Iraq. For instance, in 2007, half to two-thirds of American soldiers deployed in the fight against ISI were killed and wounded through the IED attacks.
The Iraq politicians have frequently asked the USA troops to depart from Iraq (“10 reasons why America should let others destroy ISIS and end perpetual military involvement in Iraq,” 2017). It would be critical to note that assumptions of engaging American forces in battles against terror groups such as Isis have not guaranteed safety for the American populations.
In most cases, the American government does not clearly illustrate its intentions behind the presence of its troops in other nations, which in most cases, sparks skeptics and lack of adequate support from the local government of affected countries.
America should adopt other mechanisms that can win trust and support from local government, such as trying to dissolve the religious differences between the Sunnis and Shia Muslims and democratization of countries like Syria and Iraq, which I believe can bear more fruits.
In conclusion, the threat of terror attacks on the American homeland will remain to persist. Be that as it may, it takes religion for good individuals to do insidious things. Strict terrorist militants frequently guarantee to follow a specific conviction, typically a debased or undermined adaptation of a particular religion because of distortion with respect to its adherents.
The center of these self-designated radicals is frequently gotten from heavenly sacred writing, with the main impetus of its supporters always energized by an administrative power to expect believability. All nations should unite toward a common enemy, which is terrorism, since terrorism is not just an American issue but a global threat and can have devastating implications on the global economies.
References
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Chaliand, G., & Blin, A. (2016). The history of terrorism: From Antiquity to ISIS. University of California Press.
Guinta, P. (2016). Well of bones: 20 American snipers. 10,000 ISIS terrorists.
ISIS and American foreign policy. (2016, August 10). Bill of Rights Institute. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources/lessons-plans/current-events/isis-american-foreign-policy/
Terrorist Attacks on the Rise Throughout the Region. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://mepc.org/commentary/terrorist-attacks-rise-throughout-region
Understanding terrorism. (n.d.). https://www.apa.org. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/11/terrorism