The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS) has become the mark of the leading U.S. military function in Iraq. In
recent news, members of the ISIS fighting force are retaliating against the
U.S. and posing major threats to President Obama and America as a whole. In
addition, an American journalist and video reporter, James Foley was abducted
by the ISIS fighting force and addressed President Obama stating that Foley’s
abduction and death was retaliation for the U.S. air strikes. President Obama has taken principles
such as use of rationality and reason, importance of mutual benefit, and entitlement
of natural rights from the school of liberalism and applied them to today’s
issues.
Obama
wants to stop all potential harm from actually reaching our country, as he
believes the threats from ISIS pose a threat on our nation and our allies. Liberalism
puts an emphasis on the use of reason and the Natural Rights of human beings so
Obama is taking action as well as taking consideration to the well being of our
nation.
ISIS made
verbal threats to another journalist via Skype and stated, “the lives of Americans
are in Obama’s hands.” Obama is not only trying to protect the people of
America by maintaining a balance in this situation, but he is also taking
action for the benefit of the United States since the school of Liberalism aims
for a mutual benefit. Action is being taken by trying to make an air coalition with the Arab
Countries and other countries that want to join him in fighting ISIS. In
addition, he is trying to create an army to arm the rebels in Syria and the
Kurds in Iraq to fight back on Syrian and Iraqi ground.
Obama believes
that our country’s actions will wither away the ISIS fighting force and
hopefully stop extremists from traveling and join the ISIS fighting force since
most of their fighters are foreign. These beliefs can be applied to the final
concept of liberalism, optimism.
Obama
follows a liberalist way of thinking by the aspects of his solution and plan to
fight back ISIS all while using the main goals in the school of Liberalism.
While I agree with you on many points, I believe you may warping the liberalism idea of mutual benefit in conflict. The USA working with other countries that want to see ISIS weakened is not really the mutual benefit that liberalism brings up, I would argue, but instead taking advantage of the realist idea that cooperation between countries may be used to balance power by working together to bring the relative power of another nation down.
ReplyDeleteISIS has definitely become an important mark that needs to be addressed. Their subtle threats are becoming an issue and President Barack Obama is seeking to stop all potential harm to the USA. Nevertheless, I definitely agree with you, and your elaborate summary on the issue definitely helped to see the argument that you were developing.
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