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Beating ISIS
Haley Judge
10
English
12th Grade
04/05/2016

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Drehle     4      Islamic state

  • territory that includes ethnic, tribal, religious, and geographic diversity
  • partly lies in Syria
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Drehle   5      Joining ISIS

  • the basic message that lures people in to join these terrorists is: join us and kill your enemies before they kill you
  • young people from an estimated 90 nations have been drawn into ISIS
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Drehle     5       What Obama is doing about ISIS

  • primary determination is to avoid the fly trap that is Syria
  • Instead of solving the problem at hand, he is eavesdropping on phone calls, capturing emails, and trolling websites, which is getting us no where as a nation
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Drehle      7       Chasing Terrorist Money

  • U.S. pilots destroyed more than 100 oil tanks in Syria
  • this strategy took longer than a year, which makes Obama's plan so uninspiring 
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Drehle     8      Actually beating ISIS

  • to beat these terrorists, Obama must step his game up
  • there are several territories that will go down if ISIS goes down
  • he believed that a more "humble" U.S. policy would be greeted around the world, which sounds like the flame under a boiling pot
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Drehle     8      Terror Statistics

  • basically the new "normal"
  • 13,463 terror attacks across the globe in 2014
  • 1,122 a month on average
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Drehle   1    Problems around the world

  • ISIS killed nearly 400 people by blowing up a Russian passenger jet that flew over Egypt
  • terror raid in a Paris suburb on November 18 that left two people dead
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Drehle      3      Timeline

  • between August 2014 and March 2015 ISIS exploded
  • ISIS executed American journalist James Foley
  • gunman seizes 17 hostages in a Sydney cafe
  • three terrorists attack Charlie Hebdo and a supermarket, leaving 17 dead
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Dehle    4      Terror in the U.S.

  • so far in 2015, more than twice as many U.S. residents have been linked to Islamic extremist plots
  • ISIS has emerged as the key recruiter for all terrorism
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Drehle    5    ISIS and the internet

  • they use social media to attack and indoctrinate 
  • known as the "dark side of globalization"
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