One of the most important principles on the universe is the value for human life. Every human being has got the fundamental right to peace and to life and this can only be achieved when very person begin by respecting themselves and then also respecting the core being of their neighbors. Sadly, there are a group of people feeling pleasure in causing pain and terror unto the lives of others thereby making the earth quite inhabitable. This paper will address on how to cope with the challenges posed by ISIS drawing arguments and making critics on Robert Kagan`s” The Crisis Of World Order”, Wall street journal , November 20,2015 and James Stavridis ”Killing The Islamic State Softly”, Foreign policy.com December 28,2015. In response to this, I believe the best response strategy will come from establishing a peace treaty with the Islamic nation because, in this way, the whole world will be unified against one enemy.
Some of the strategies to counter the challenges posed by the ISIS are as follows;
The first strategy in addressing this issue of the challenge posed by the ISIS is to seek a collective international strategy for the region. I believe this strategy can work not only when implemented under the aegis of a big international organization such as the International Committee of the Red Cross or the United Nations. This can be best done through winning the international trust by sighing peace treaties with the Islamic nations and maintaining the terms and conditions of the treaties. I also propose this strategy because it will help in increasing the international cohesion so that all the nations will fight against ISIS as they too use such terror methods to express the dissatisfaction they get from the super power nations. In this case, the super power nations who put their interests above that of other nations. This is opposed to James Stavridis’ view on “Killing The Islamic State Softly”, which requires that the Islamic weakened. The Islamic nations will also have to sponsor terror groups such as ISIS so that they do not become eliminated or killed.
Secondly, I want to agree and contribute to what Stavrid argues about the creation of jobs as a strategy to curb the challenge posed by ISIS. The challenge is not jobs as such but the learning institutions should run a curriculum to enhance patriotism and participation of the academic fraternity on fighting and denouncing such groups as ISIS. In addition, I believe it is not only creation of jobs but also by creation of sufficient job opportunities, which are well rewarding so as to absorb the population who graduate from the colleges and universities. This is a preventive measure to help in reducing the percentage of the idle youth who often fall prey of the ISIS. The author asserts “All of this will be expensive and hard, but compared to the alternative — simply relying on bombs or guns to defeat the Islamic State — it will be more efficient and effective, especially over the long term”(Stavrid).
According to my point of view, investing on the intelligence unit would be more appropriate since it will gather lots of information and help in the controlling of the ISIS at the primary stages of their missions and plans. It is clear that we cannot fight violence with violence and so taking this argument as a strategy to curb the ISIS challenge is quite tricky since it is a very expensive method and may deem quite ineffective the ISIS had deployed very complex strategies in place to execute their missions. Thirdly, I disagree with this quote by Robert Kagan “there could be bloodshed and violence, even mass killing in Syria and Libya and elsewhere, and some instability in Iraq- but the fighting, and its affected ,and America`s own interests would not be directly threatened so long as good intelligence and drone strikes prevented terrorist attacks on U.S” (Kagan). Mass killing and blood shed is a very inhuman way of curbing the ISIS tragedy since this leads to the loss of very innocent lives and property in which in most cases the target people are always not found in such killings. So the ISIS challenge must be solved without posing a threat to humanity and nature as a strategy of bringing a solution.
In addition, I believe that the ISIS challenge can be also addressed by investing in technology and good international relations. Insecurity is not only a U.S agenda but also a world wide agenda. Combining forces across the globe would be more effective, efficient and reliable since it will relieve the economy of a single nation trying to fight terror in the world.it also comes out pretty wonderful when the world combine forces to fight a common enemy, ISIS and other affiliated terror groups. This in turn weakens the roots and strengths of the militia groups such as cutting out the source of funding, the training grounds, and the recruitment methods and so on.
In addition to these, tightening the security measures and increasing a high level of accountability among the citizens of could also be a great deal in curbing the challenge posed by the ISIS on security matters. This would help in tracing the ISIS recruits or the ones they are targeting. A constant tracking of information can also be done from the social media, phone communications and other modes of communication and tactics the ISIS uses to recruit train and deploy their members. Another way that I believe could help in tightening security measures involve controlling the civil rights over ownership of weapons, keeping a track record of weapons handling and implementing such policies that would minimize weapon handling among the civilian. This would help to minimize the access to weapons by the ISIS and also reduce the causalities caused as a result of allowing the citizens to have a right of owning weapons.
In conclusion, it is very possible to overcome the challenge posed by the ISIS though such strategic methods that have been addressed in this document. Just to stress, insecurity is a world agenda, not a one nation or state agenda and therefore all nations and member states must arise and combine forces to eliminate ISIS from the roots.
Work cited
Kagan, Robert. The Crisis of World Order. Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2015. Accessed on 21st Jan. 2016 from: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-crisis-of-world-order-1448052095
Starvridis, James. Killing the Islamic State Softly. Foreign Policy.com, December 28, 2015.
