ISIL haunts 9/11 anniversary: Our view

Source- http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/09/10/isil-iraq-syria-beheading-terrorism-editorials-debates/71529888/

 Fourteen years go  Sept. 11, 2001 the United States suffered a surprise attack that cost 3,000 american lives by a Islamic extremist group based 7,000 miles away in Taliban. Since 9/11 happen the U.S. invasion chased al-Qaeda out of its most senior leaders, but the most common one we know that they killed was Osama bin Laden in 2011. Well everyone know the group ISIL or ISIS, declared them self by carefully publicizing a video of them beheading captive westerns and burning alive a Jordanian pilot inside a cage. I hate to right this but people don't think this is a enough, ISIS has establish the rape and sexual  slavery of women and girls. And they also"justifying the brutality with twisted readings of the Quran. ISIL even issued a guide with 27 answers to militants’ questions, noting that the females’ “unbelief” makes it legal to enslave them." Just last month ISIS attacked citizen and rival insurgents with mustard gas. And this is crazy to think about but six months before 9/11 ISIS destroy religious structures of Palmyra, and they also decapitated an 83-year-old retired director of antiquities there, which ISIS actions echoed the Taliban's " destruction of giant Buddha statues." Today in are modern world we consider ISIS a representation of evil. Therefore we must not let it take the foothold from which to plot attacks against the United States. But the U.S. is trying in all ways to ultimately defeat ISIS. More than a decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, People in the U.S have become more understandably alert of sending women and men to fight in the Middle East and its conflicts. Even this has made the President to engross ISIS on the ground expect through proxies such as the Iraqi army and trained fighters in Syria.They ask the U.S and allied airstrikes for patience has the allies painstakingly rebuilding effective Iraqi war. Its scary to say but the tide will turn in indeed and metrics hint at progress.  The administration says "ISIL's movements have been effectively limited in nearly a third of the areas in Iraq it used to control." The U.S. has "assembled a coalition of 62 nations and international organizations to counter ISIL, almost double the 34 nations that rallied behind then-President George H.W. Bush to push Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in 1991." Even though we want the struggle against ISIL to be short but its likely to be long and also it will not be won by driving the group out out of its territory that its claim as its caliphate and "by countering the ideology that has brought the group so many followers despite its depravity. Unless the current approach starts to show better results soon, America should prepare to take more aggressive actions, including the use of Apache helicopter gunships to assist ground fights, and deployment of U.S. forces to act as spotters for airstrikes and to bolster Iraqi units."And I must say there's a point to this article and the point is "If there’s one lesson the nation should have learned from that awful day 14 years ago, it’s that the United States cannot afford to ignore a rabidly anti-American terrorist group that has established a haven in a faraway place."

 My reaction to this article really open my eyes to just how wicked ISIS really is and they could of had a part in 9/11. And it makes me sick that people don't think beheading people was enough to them to make ISIS a threat. I believe that one of these days are nation and its allied in the Middle East that we could defeat ISIS and put everyone to rest in the Middle East. To know that don't need to be in fear of getting raped, beheaded, or shot. But most of I would really like the people who read the article to get this one lesson and the lesson is "it’s that the United States cannot afford to ignore a rabidly anti-American terrorist group that has established a haven in a faraway place."