An Enemy That Doesn t Need Direct Confrontation For Now

Shuker Yasin Ms. Brooks November 16, 2014 Essay 4 Research Paper ISIS: An enemy that doesn’t need direct confrontation for now After the death of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of AL-Qaeda, the U.S. have finally withdrew their troops from that battle ground and brought them home. President Obama has been declaring that he would bring the troops back home and he finally has. Now faced with another threat that has claimed the U.S. as their enemy, the U.S. has been put on the edge of the national security. The question now is, ‘Should the U.S. go after this enemy after just coming back from a war?’ There are some who think that this situation should be settled with as soon as possible and some who think that this isn’t our war to fight. The U.S.†¦show more content†¦Everyone knows that the U.S. president is the Commander Chief and that he can issue an order for troops to go wherever, but what about the troops themselves? Do they still have it in them to keep fighting with the mentality that everything will be fine? What about their health? Many troops comeback and suffer from Post-Trau matic Stress Disorder. Do the troops themselves want to go back to war? Sam Frizell in Time has shown a statistic of whether or not the troops think that it would be a good idea to reengage in this war itself, â€Å"Just over 70% of the troops polled were opposed to the U.S. military sending a substantial number of combat troops to Iraq to support the Iraqi security forces.† (Frizell) With that in mind, it seems that a majority of the troops that are being sent back aren’t going on their own will but because they are ordered to. The loss of soldier’s isn’t the only thing that needs to be fixed. The U.S. has spent so much on weapons that they need to also establish a stable amount of expenses that were lost. While the U.S. was in a great recession it was also in a long-term war. So much money was poured into that war even as the country suffered economically. Frida Ghitis in World Politics Review says, ‘The U.S. cannot pretend that it is an uninteres ted party in Iraq, having spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of troops there.’ (Ghitis) What Ghitis is saying is truly under stable. No one can put so much effort into