- Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr. The Huffington Post “The U.S. Should Intervene in Syria in a Big Way” September 2015. November 11 2016. Web
Background: This article describes the problems that is occurring in Syria, and what each country is doing to intervene with the situation. It focuses on the problem with these Syrians coming into the U.S.
How I used it: I used this article to help support my claims that we should not get involved with Syria. But also I used this article as a counter argument and how his ideas I used as a rebuttal to help support my claims, and how attacking Syria would lead to more problems.
- Spencer, Richard. The Telegraph “How Syria and the bloody conflict has torn the UN Security Council apart” October 7 2015. November 11 2016. Web
Background: This article describes the United Nations idea and position on this problem since they were ultimately created to help prevent wars and promise a better future for the people.
How I used it: I used this article to help support my claim that other countries are getting involved with Syria. While reading this I found that there would be more problems with outside countries also getting involved, due to different idea on how to handle the situation, by The U.S getting involved they may start more problems with China Russia and many other superpowers around the world.
- Youssef, Nancy. The Daily Beast “U.S admits it Bombed Syrian Troops.” Sep 18 2016. Nov 20. 2016. Web
Background: This article describes the failed attempt The U.S had on attacking Syria and how it really benefited terrorism instead of destroying them.
How I used it: I used this article by helping me explain how attacking them would cause more problems for The U.S rather than preventing the problem. As it said so in the article it goes on to say it builds up ISIS’ confidence and made them feel stronger by such an awful attack. So instead of making the opponent feel down the attack made them feel better.
- Riffkin, Rebecca. Gallup “Americans Name Terrorism as No. 1 U.S. Problem” November 3 2016. December 14 2015. Web
Background: In this article it describes the citizens biggest problem, as well as a survey to describe what the people fear is the biggest problem that is occurring in The U.S. It focuses on the people’s idea rather then the government and gives the people a voice of a problem.
How I used it: I used this article to give me an idea of what the percentage is that the people believe to be the biggest problem in The U.S and by doing so I got a better idea on what fears the citizens have. I learned that one in every six citizens feared terrorism and by the ratio, by doing so I was able to focus my attention of problems that are occurring now in days with our country and terrorism.
- Fantz, Ashley. CNN “ More than half the nation’s governors say Syrian refugees not welcome” november 3 2016. November 2015. Web
Background: This article is about why Syrian refugees are not welcomed in the U.S the problems that they cause and occur while having them in our borders.
How I used it: I used this article by providing information about The U.S and how individual state feel about letting Syrians into the country and the problems that each of these states feel could be a problem. By looking into this article I was able to find that a majority of the states can agree that they want nothing to do with the Syrian people. Based on the attacks around the world that have occurred in the past few years also helps solidify the reasons for these states decisions.
- Rosenthal, Max. Mother Jones “Here’s What Republicans Don’t Get About Refugees” November 3 2016. November 17 2015. Web
Background: This article is about the actual Syrian refugees entering countries with a false passport and how they are getting into certain countries so easily.
How I used it: This article helped me get information on how these Syrians are getting into these countries with false passport. I used this article as a counter argument such as how Obama claimed every country is taking extra precaution on who they are letting in, but if that’s the case how is there still Syrian refugees coming in with fake passports. This just helps prove that if the government can’t be 100% positive on who they let in then the Syrians shouldn’t be aloud here at all.
- Miller, Jake. CBS “How do Americans feel about U.S. involvement in foreign crises?” Sep 14, 2014. Oct 30,2016. Web
Background: This article is about how the citizens of America feel about getting involved with any foreign affair at all. Which includes the results of most Americans to stay out of foreign affiliations.
How I used it: I learned the percentages of the American people and how they feel about the idea of foreign affairs. Based off the results many felt that even though The U.S is considered to be the strongest military they people still felt that they should let other countries deal with there own problem for which the citizens rather have other problems fixed in The U.S before getting involved elsewhere.
- Sanger, David. The New York Times “Donald Trump Likely to End Aid for The Rebels Fighting Syrian Government.” Nov. 18 2015. Nov 19 2016. Web
Background: This article is based off president to be Donald Trump and his ideas on the conflict going on in Syria, as well as his idea to stop aiding Syria and pull American troops out of the country.
How I used it: From this article I was able to show the outside conflict that occurs while getting involved with Syria such as problems with Russia in particular. In the article Trump explains and believes that The U.S doesn’t need to get involved because there is the likes of Russia and Iran who are getting involved who he believes can turn the tide around and end the problems going on there.
- Berman, Russell. The Atlantic “Can ISIS Terrorists Really Infiltrate The Syrian Refugee Program?” Nov 18 2015. Nov 20 2016. Web.
Background: This article is about the refugees that The U.S has let in since 9/11 and how there were some refugees that got caught doing terrorist acts and planning attacks.
How I used it: I discussed how we don’t have a perfect government who catch every little problem that goes on and do make many errors, which could be a terrorist attack. If the U.S has already caught refugees planning attacks there is a good chance that some have gotten away and never been caught yet. So The U.S is aware of making mistakes of letting in terrorist refugees and if they know that, then they might as well protect the people as much as they can from the errors they made which would be closing borders for these refugees.
10. Amanpour, Christiane. CNN. ” Passport Linked to Terrorist Complicates Syrian Refugee Crisis” Nov 15 2015. Nov 20 2016. Web
Background: This article is about how the bombing that occurred in France was based off a mistake that the French made by letting in a terrorist refugee.
How I used it: France learned the hard way of making a mistake even though they did end up checking the passport and realizing it was a fake, but it was after the damage was occurred. The French people lost many loved one that could have been avoided by proper testing of passports or completely blocking borders. The U.S should learn by other countries mistakes and realize more is at risk then letting in these refugees, the life of their own citizens are now at risk by letting a single terrorist refugee in.
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