Author: btb100

Research position paper

Foreign Affairs, Last concern for the United States?

Many people believe in lending a helping hand, until their lives are threatened. In today’s society many countries are getting involved with foreign affairs not realizing what negative outcomes may result. The US, as well as a few other countries, are well known for lending help that offer economic stability. But on the other side there are many enemies facing a problem as well, the help of foreign affairs. Which leaves us asking should the U.S get involved in, when it chances the a  American lives. When we see a friend struggle we feel bad and wish we could help and in fact may even help. But when countries see Syria struggle, such as the US they would like to offer help. But when we see terrorist involved it leaves us thinking should we help or stick out? An outcome of intervening may cause  an attack on our own nation. In today’s world many 3rd world countries as well as powerhouse countries fear terrorism. Many countries ask why these threats are happening, but when we look at it many of these attacks happen due to getting involved with foreign affairs.

The threats of terrorism is paralyzing to us. Because of past attacks, we fear of going to sporting events and other large social gatherings. A few examples of recent terrorist attacks that occurred, would be the Boston marathon and the bombing in the Germany vs France soccer game before the European Cup. The attack in France resulted in an unbelievable amount of security on all areas of France. These terroristic threats occurring in todays society causes major problems for the world. The people fear from experiencing some of the most entertaining events the world has to offer. By terrorists creating fear in the people, it helps terroristic groups achieve there ultimate goal, which is to cause chaos and fear.

The people of The US, have mostly agreed that the number one problem that we face in the US is terrorism, according to Rebecca Riffkin, in her article “Americans Name Terrorism as No. 1 U.S. Problem”.  Riffkin claims about one in every six americans feel terrorism is the biggest problem going on in the world. From these results terrorism should then be the first things we solve in America, rather than worrying about others issues. If the people agree on a problem, the government should react to the problem first before the issue increases to a bigger deal.

Terrorism is an on occurring problem in Syria. ISIS who is one of the most popular terroristic groups has been getting involved with Syria and creating chaos. Syrians fearing for there lives are deporting Syria and trying to make there way into other countries that are willing to accept them, which is creating more problems for countries letting in these refugees. ISIS is not a fan of the Syrians leaving, because if these Syrians leave and they are fleeing the country, Isis will have no one to terrorism which defeats the whole idea of terrorizing these people. By The US allowing these people to come into our country causes many problems for us, for which we do not know who they are or what types of ethics they believe in. The U.S could have many benefits by having Syrians stay in Syria in terms of defeating ISIS. By having Syrians stay in Syria it allow ISIS to be all in one area of the world rather than in all different countries, which will allow the counter terrorism programs to intervene and defeat ISIS easily.

First off by the U.S getting involved with ISIS will feel threatened by the U.S and will cause ISIS to do an unethical response such as another attack in fear of retaliation. The people of America feel unsafe already with terrorism, due to recent events that have occurred all over the world so, why should the government go looking out for more problems? The U.S should be fixing the problem and exterminating terrorism here in there own country first. Once the U.S do so, they can begin to offer help to other countries. By the U.S getting involved with these issues in Syria it results in the U.S national security to get into self defense mood. Which will result in more fear for the american people which is not something the people would look forward too.

Many problems occur with letting in these Syrian refugees in, such as we don’t truly know who is coming into the U.S. Many of these refugees are coming in with past crimes such as rape and murder. Now we are letting these Syrians in with who will continue with these lifestyles. By letting these Syrians in with these types of lifestyles they will inflict harm on our own people, because the government didn’t know who they were truly letting in. Another problem that occurs with these refugees is some of these Syrian refugees have forged papers and are really with ISIS which is a giant problem within itself, know we are letting in these people who we are trying to take out and defeat the U.S. Many believe that our government should have great knowledge of the refugees who are coming into the country, and if the government cant confirm who these refugees are then don’t let them in, that is how you create safety and hope for the people. By letting these Syrians into the U.S it is causing more problems rather than solving one. By just closing off the borders of American we are one step closer to defeating ISIS and are taking the fear out of the people. 

The best bet for the US to offer a great chance in safety for the people would be to let other countries take action on the problems that are occurring in Syria, and to just have the US worry about themselves. Even though other people and countries believe to stop terrorism the U.S should go attack ISIS head on, that would cause more problems rather then good. The US has many issues to deal with between its own countries and there problems, to go on and worry about how another country is doing. If it is such a big concern to the world why hasn’t anyone else stepped in and intervene?   

The U.S is acknowledged the top powerhouse in the world and a country that has the highest say in the United Nations, which has the likes of France, Britain, Russia, and a few other countries in the organization. But with that role that the U.S has they feel the need to always try to get involved and share their beliefs with the world.

The US is seen as a powerhouse nation with one of the strongest military power out there in the eyes of the people. But while having so much power can be beneficial in today’s world, it may cause more problems rather than good. Whenever a problem occurs, people believe the U.S should intervene since they have such a strong military and have been known for changing the tides in battle. People believe the U.S should intervene, go win the battle in Syrian and get out. But the people don’t realize there are many more problems that the U.S face when it comes to getting involved with foreign affairs. The United Nations was created for these types of problems, which is a reason why the U.S should stand back and let this organization do there job.

The United Nations was created to prevent wars and to intervene when necessary and to prevent any harm on countries. This organization was made after the world war to prevent wars. But other countries like Russia and China have different plans for how to settle the problem with Syria, that many other countries do not believe in. While other countries realize the problems that are going on in Syria and realize they have no need to be involved. President Obama felt upset that France and Britain are making no attempt to get involved. But understanding where France is coming from many wouldn’t want to be involved either after the attacks they received at Paris and bombing that occurred as well. The US as well has dealt with a lot of problems with terrorism speaking 9/11 and the bombing in Boston just occurred in these past years. Other countries such as France realize there is no need to get involved, the U.S should think about recent events before making there next move on Syria.

A major concern for bringing soldiers to another country to defend foreign people, as a country we shouldn’t be sending our own men to a place where they risk their lives in order to protect other countries citizens,  due to foreign countries having weak military strength.  Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr believes a way to defend the Syrians is to send men in and risk their lives .“Only an overwhelming land force can impose order and peace on that tortured piece of real estate. We would lose people as would our allies, but the alternative is to simply stand idly by while this tragedy unfolds.” As he describes so in the article “The U.S. Should Intervene in Syria in a Big Way” I completely disagree with this statement, by sending in soldiers we risk there lives and create more chaos. As Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr goes on to say “I don’t mean more bombing, more pathetic efforts at diplomacy and heaven forbid any more red lines.” to me bombing would be more of a reasonable idea rather then sending soldiers in. No matter what ISIS will feel threatened and strike back, they have shown that throughout the years and that they will not be hiding back and laying low. They will strike back to the ones who intervene with their battles. Either way by getting involved the U.S will cause problems so if that’s the case, blow off a few bombs take your men out and see how they react because either we sending our men into a death mission would bring back terror to our country. Due to the safety of our people and concern for there well being is why we shouldn’t even get involved, no good come out of getting involved. If the world saw this as a major problem others would be getting involved, but as you can see France and England are backing out because they got more problems to deal within there own country.

U.S has admitted to already attempting to bomb Syria even though they said the bombing was a failure. Many men working in the government believed that this bombing had helped ISIS rather than destroying them. In the article “U.S admits it Bombed Syrian Troops.” by Nancy Youssef, Youssef goes on to talk about,  “as the strikes intended, the coalition may instead been a boon for the terror group.” Now by U.S doing such an awful attack in bombing ISIS, not only did they set up a possible chance for a counter attack by ISIS they also made ISIS feel stronger. By doing these actions and failing, the government has now risked the lives of Americans in beliefs that ISIS will conduct a counter attack on the U.S. The government should next time realize there are more important things in life then bombing, and worry about the major concerns in America

The U.S should realize that there are plenty of mistakes that led that resulted in problems throughout the world. A matter of fact is that some of these problems were easily avoidable, such as the problems that occurred in France with the fake citizenship and how that one mess up caused so much suffering for the people. As well as realizing our soldiers are very important to us and that some problems that are going on around the world aren’t worth the fight and that we should leave our people out of the problem.

The United States has been known for helping out foreign countries in a time of need, starting back to the first World War. But when it comes to war should we rethink the idea of helping out a country or to go in with no hesitations. For when doing so there maybe repercussions for our acts, the U.S should worry more towards the protection of there own people before strategizing a plan to save other countries people. A question our government should ask themselves about foreign affairs is, what US should get involved in and what they should leave up to the United Nations or other countries to intervene with?

The threats we receive from terrorist groups should be our government’s top concern. Countries around the world that are helping out the issue in Syria, and that are bringing in some of the people of refugees are being hit by terrorist attacks. The US has been involved with many problems due to terrorists throughout time, the people of the U.S fear that their lives may be at risk. If The US is aware of the risks they put on there own people should they still get involved or let others step in and give Syria help?

Elected president Donald Trump has implanted his ideas of Syrian refugees and decided to take our men out of Syria as well as close off the gates and banning  these Syrians from coming in. Already many other countries are getting involved with this crisis, and have a strong handle on the situation. By getting involved we open up the doors to much bigger problems such as dealing with Russia. Which Trump goes on to say in The New York Times, “We end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria.” Now by doing so not only are we letting in refugees that we clearly have no idea who we are, but also would be going to war with another country just because of our beliefs and ethics on society and how these Syrians should be treated.  All that has happened by getting involved with these Syrian refugees throughout the world should have convinced the government that the people of America need to be safe and let others intervene and stay out of this disaster.

Since 9/11 there has been a significant amount of refugees that the US has let in. An article By Russell Berman, called “an ISIS Terrorists Really Infiltrate The Syrian Refugee Program?” Berman asks the question such as can ISIS ruin the refugee problem and stop refugees from deporting,  “And within that population, three people have been arrested for activities related to terrorism. None of them were close to executing an attack inside the U.S., and two of the men were caught trying to leave the country to join terrorist groups overseas.” Even though those numbers do not seem like a big deal, we still have to look at it in a different perspective such as that if they were caught doing a terrorist acts there are many more of them out there who may not have been caught. As well as we don’t have a perfect government as does no one else which leads to question are there still other terroristic groups out there in the U.S who haven’t been caught, that are planning an attack on the nation? 

A giant problem with countries letting in refugees is that these refugees are coming in with have fake passports for allowing these Syrians into the countries, and trying to realize the difference between fake passports and real ones. After the bombing in Paris the French had found a the passports from one of the bombers, that France had no information of from this man ever being allowed into the country. “The fingerprint was not in the French database, the senator said, and therefore officials believe the man was among a group of refugees and migrants.” France could have prevented this tragic accident from happening. The U.S should learn from Frances mistakes and realize many people in France that got very hurt by this attack. The U.S should protect their people and do whatever it needs to ensure the safety of the people and one way to ensure that is by cutting off the borders to these refugees.

America lives by good ethics, they believe in the pursuit of happiness and want to share the joy all over the world. America lives for peace, and believes in helping a friend out when they are in a time of need. But also the U.S should think about themselves first and there people when a threat can occur. We as people understand that people are in time of need, but also as people we should be more concern about ourselves first and make sure that are safety and protection are in good hands. Which when getting involved with Syria’s people, many problems occur. Many countries all over the world are willing to lend a helping hand and feel that they can make a difference. But the U.S has been dealing with terroristic attacks for years now and they should realize that they should just mind their own business for the safety of the nation as well as the safety of their own citizens.

Work cited

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

Youssef, Nancy. The Daily Beast “U.S admits it Bombed Syrian Troops.”  Sep 18 2016. Nov 20. 2016. Web

Riffkin, Rebecca. Gallup “Americans Name Terrorism as No. 1 U.S. Problem” November 3 2016. December 14 2015. Web

Rosenthal, Max. Mother Jones “Here’s What Republicans Don’t Get About Refugees” November 3 2016. November 17 2015. Web

Fantz, Ashley. CNN “ More than half the nation’s governors say Syrian refugees not welcome” november 3 2016. November 2015. Web

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

Berman, Russell. The Atlantic “Can ISIS Terrorists Really Infiltrate The Syrian Refugee Program?” Nov 18 2015. Nov 20 2016. Web.

Miller, Jake. CBS “How do Americans feel about U.S. involvement in foreign crises?” Sep 14, 2014. Oct 30,2016. Web

Amanpour, Christiane. CNN. ” Passport Linked to Terrorist Complicates Syrian Refugee Crisis” Nov 15 2015. Nov 20 2016. Web

Self Reflective – BTB100

Core Value I. My work demonstrates that I used a variety of social and interactive practices that involve recursive stages of exploration, discovery, conceptualization, and development.

I demonstrated my idea on Core Value I by going back editing my papers many time and taking advantage of the advice professor Hodges whether it was in person or feedback on a reply. I demonstrated this idea on my Causal Rewrite where I went back a few times to edit my paper and met face to face with professor during class to get advice and ideas on how to make my paper the best to my ability. He explained to me that I was missing the effects to my causes, as well as make separate paragraphs instead of a just a few giant bulky paragraphs and separate them by ideas. The information and advice that professor left me with I was able to use to my advantage and took his feedback as a helping tool. By editing revising and listening to feedback from professor Hodges I was able to demonstrate what Core Value I means to me.

Core Value II. My work demonstrates that I placed texts into conversation with one another to create meaning by synthesizing ideas from various discourse communities.

I demonstrated my idea of Core Value II by connecting two different ideas together that helped build up a strong claim. In my Rebuttal Rewrite I gathered information from different articles that had the same idea, but had different claims that I felt both helped me build a strong argument and was able to put them together. I was able to share my thought on other people’s comments such as Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight and use their ideas and thoughts to my advantage by countering some of there arguments and sharing my own ideas. By understanding this Core Value II was able to find the right information and ideas that I needed from articles to help propose a strong rebuttal for my paper.    

Core Value III. My work demonstrates that I rhetorically analyzed the purpose, audience, and contexts of my own writing and other texts and visual arguments.

I demonstrated my idea of Core Value III by understanding who my readers are and what kind of background knowledge they have on my topic so I know what ideas to give them and a background on what my idea is. In my work, Definition Rewrite I was able to target the citizens of America and a problem that they tend to hear much about in this past year. I focused on the American people to give them an idea of what is going on in our world and how actions of our government may or may not affect us. I never singled out an individual but maintained my focus on the people of America and a situation that we face. By knowing who my readers are I can turn their attention to the matters of terrorism and refugee problems that we face. By understanding what the Core Value III is I was able to demonstrate it in my work.   

Core Value IV: My work demonstrates that I have met the expectations of academic writing by locating, evaluating, and incorporating illustrations and evidence to support my own ideas and interpretations.

I demonstrated my idea of Core Value IV by demonstrating it in my Visual Rewrite. I was able to prove my understanding of this Core Value by understanding what my video “Take Time to Be a Dad Today” was about. I was able to understand this videos message with no volume and just by the location of the house the type of mood the actors seem to be in as well as the movement. Such as the father seemed to have been playing with a child just by the looks from our first few glimpse because he was doing a little childish dance and looking down which in fact gave the the impression of looking to someone smaller then him due to not being visible through the window. By pausing it second by second getting a good glimpse of all the events going on in the video I was able to come up with an idea for what was going on and then was able to conclude to a conclusion, that the father was trying to spend time with his daughter and trying to make an impact on her life. After getting my final thought I went back and turned the volume up just to make sure my ideas matched the videos point which came out successful.

Core Value V. My work demonstrates that I respect my ethical responsibility to represent complex ideas fairly and to the sources of my information with appropriate citation.

I demonstrated my idea of Core Value V by understanding to give credit to when credit is due and by doing so I would always give credit to an author when using helpful there ideas as seen in my Bibliography I would give credit to the author and the name of the article to provide where I got my information from, as well as attach a link to my work cited to show exactly where I got my information from so it would bring you exactly to the website by just clicking the title. By doing so I was able to demonstrate my ethical beliefs in writing. As well as explain how I used their ideas to help my argument by giving a short statement of how I used it. By having good ethics I was able to show where my information came from so that they weren’t some idea that I thought of, but a credible source where I was able to use to build my claims up.    

Bibliography – BTB100

  1. 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.   

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

Rebuttal Rewrite – BTB100

The U.S is acknowledged the top powerhouse in the world and a country that has the highest say in the United Nations, which has the likes of France, Britain, Russia, and a few other countries in the organization. But with that role that the U.S has they feel the need to always try to get involved and share their beliefs with the world.

The US is seen as a powerhouse nation with one of the strongest military power out there in the eyes of the people. But while having so much power can be beneficial in today’s world, it may cause more problems rather than good. Whenever a problem occurs, people believe the U.S should intervene since they have such a strong military and have been known for changing the tides in battle. People believe the U.S should intervene, go win the battle in Syrian and get out. But the people don’t realize there are many more problems that the U.S face when it comes to getting involved with foreign affairs. The United Nations was created for these types of problems, which is a reason why the U.S should stand back and let this organization do there job.

The United Nations was created to prevent wars and to intervene when necessary and to prevent any harm on countries. This organization was made after the world war to prevent wars. But other countries like Russia and China have different plans for how to settle the problem with Syria, that many other countries do not believe in. While other countries realize the problems that are going on in Syria and realize they have no need to be involved. President Obama felt upset that France and Britain are making no attempt to get involved. But understanding where France is coming from many wouldn’t want to be involved either after the attacks they received at Paris and bombing that occurred as well. The US as well has dealt with a lot of problems with terrorism speaking 9/11 and the bombing in Boston just occurred in these past years. Other countries such as France realize there is no need to get involved, the U.S should think about recent events before making there next move on Syria.

A major concern for bringing soldiers to another country to defend foreign people, as a country we shouldn’t be sending our own men to a place where they risk their lives in order to protect other countries citizens,  due to foreign countries having weak military strength.  Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr believes a way to defend the Syrians is to send men in and risk their lives .“Only an overwhelming land force can impose order and peace on that tortured piece of real estate. We would lose people as would our allies, but the alternative is to simply stand idly by while this tragedy unfolds.” As he describes so in the article “The U.S. Should Intervene in Syria in a Big Way” I completely disagree with this statement, by sending in soldiers we risk there lives and create more chaos. As Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr goes on to say “I don’t mean more bombing, more pathetic efforts at diplomacy and heaven forbid any more red lines.” to me bombing would be more of a reasonable idea rather then sending soldiers in. No matter what ISIS will feel threatened and strike back, they have shown that throughout the years and that they will not be hiding back and laying low. They will strike back to the ones who intervene with their battles. Either way by getting involved the U.S will cause problems so if that’s the case, blow off a few bombs take your men out and see how they react because either we sending our men into a death mission would bring back terror to our country. Due to the safety of our people and concern for there well being is why we shouldn’t even get involved, no good come out of getting involved. If the world saw this as a major problem others would be getting involved, but as you can see France and England are backing out because they got more problems to deal within there own country.

Causal Rewrite – BTB100

The threats of terrorism is paralyzing to us. Because of past attacks, we fear of going to sporting events and other large social gatherings. A few examples of recent terrorist attacks that occurred, would be the Boston marathon and the bombing in the Germany vs France soccer game before the European Cup. The attack in France resulted in an unbelievable amount of security on all areas of France. These terroristic threats occurring in todays society causes major problems for the world. The people fear from experiencing some of the most entertaining events the world has to offer. By terrorists creating fear in the people, it helps terroristic groups achieve there ultimate goal, which is to cause chaos and fear.

The people of The US, have mostly agreed that the number one problem that we face in the US is terrorism, according to Rebecca Riffkin, in her article “Americans Name Terrorism as No. 1 U.S. Problem”.  Riffkin claims about one in every six americans feel terrorism is the biggest problem going on in the world. From these results terrorism should then be the first things we solve in America, rather than worrying about others issues. If the people agree on a problem, the government should react to the problem first before the issue increases to a bigger deal.

Terrorism is an on occurring problem in Syria. ISIS who is one of the most popular terroristic groups has been getting involved with Syria and creating chaos. Syrians fearing for there lives are deporting Syria and trying to make there way into other countries that are willing to accept them, which is creating more problems for countries letting in these refugees. ISIS is not a fan of the Syrians leaving, because if these Syrians leave and they are fleeing the country, Isis will have no one to terrorism which defeats the whole idea of terrorizing these people. By The US allowing these people to come into our country causes many problems for us, for which we do not know who they are or what types of ethics they believe in. The U.S could have many benefits by having Syrians stay in Syria in terms of defeating ISIS. By having Syrians stay in Syria it allow ISIS to be all in one area of the world rather than in all different countries, which will allow the counter terrorism programs to intervene and defeat ISIS easily.

First off by the U.S getting involved with ISIS will feel threatened by the U.S and will cause ISIS to do an unethical response such as another attack in fear of retaliation. The people of America feel unsafe already with terrorism, due to recent events that have occurred all over the world so, why should the government go looking out for more problems? The U.S should be fixing the problem and exterminating terrorism here in there own country first. Once the U.S do so, they can begin to offer help to other countries. By the U.S getting involved with these issues in Syria it results in the U.S national security to get into self defense mood. Which will result in more fear for the american people which is not something the people would look forward too.

Many problems occur with letting in these Syrian refugees in, such as we don’t truly know who is coming into the U.S. Many of these refugees are coming in with past crimes such as rape and murder. Now we are letting these Syrians in with who will continue with these lifestyles. By letting these Syrians in with these types of lifestyles they will inflict harm on our own people, because the government didn’t know who they were truly letting in. Another problem that occurs with these refugees is some of these Syrian refugees have forged papers and are really with ISIS which is a giant problem within itself, know we are letting in these people who we are trying to take out and defeat the U.S. Many believe that our government should have great knowledge of the refugees who are coming into the country, and if the government cant confirm who these refugees are then don’t let them in, that is how you create safety and hope for the people. By letting these Syrians into the U.S it is causing more problems rather than solving one. By just closing off the borders of American we are one step closer to defeating ISIS and are taking the fear out of the people. 

The best bet for the US to offer a great chance in safety for the people would be to let other countries take action on the problems that are occurring in Syria, and to just have the US worry about themselves. Even though other people and countries believe to stop terrorism the U.S should go attack ISIS head on, that would cause more problems rather then good. The US has many issues to deal with between its own countries and there problems, to go on and worry about how another country is doing. If it is such a big concern to the world why hasn’t anyone else stepped in and intervene?   

Definition Rewrite – BTB100

The United States has been known for helping out foreign countries in a time of need, starting back to the first World War. But when it comes to war should we rethink the idea of helping out a country or to go in with no hesitations. For when doing so there maybe repercussions for our acts, the U.S should worry more towards the protection of there own people before strategizing a plan to save other countries people. A question our government should ask themselves about foreign affairs is, what US should get involved in and what they should leave up to the United Nations or other countries to intervene with?

The threats we receive from terrorist groups should be our government’s top concern. Countries around the world that are helping out the issue in Syria, and that are bringing in some of the people of refugees are being hit by terrorist attacks. The US has been involved with many problems due to terrorists throughout time, the people of the U.S fear that their lives may be at risk. If The US is aware of the risks they put on there own people should they still get involved or let others step in and give Syria help?

Elected president Donald Trump has implanted his ideas of Syrian refugees and decided to take our men out of Syria as well as close off the gates and banning  these Syrians from coming in. Already many other countries are getting involved with this crisis, and have a strong handle on the situation. By getting involved we open up the doors to much bigger problems such as dealing with Russia. Which Trump goes on to say in The New York Times, “We end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria.” Now by doing so not only are we letting in refugees that we clearly have no idea who we are, but also would be going to war with another country just because of our beliefs and ethics on society and how these Syrians should be treated.  All that has happened by getting involved with these Syrian refugees throughout the world should have convinced the government that the people of America need to be safe and let others intervene and stay out of this disaster.

Since 9/11 there has been a significant amount of refugees that the US has let in. An article By Russell Berman, called “an ISIS Terrorists Really Infiltrate The Syrian Refugee Program?” Berman asks the question such as can ISIS ruin the refugee problem and stop refugees from deporting,  “And within that population, three people have been arrested for activities related to terrorism. None of them were close to executing an attack inside the U.S., and two of the men were caught trying to leave the country to join terrorist groups overseas.” Even though those numbers do not seem like a big deal, we still have to look at it in a different perspective such as that if they were caught doing a terrorist acts there are many more of them out there who may not have been caught. As well as we don’t have a perfect government as does no one else which leads to question are there still other terroristic groups out there in the U.S who haven’t been caught, that are planning an attack on the nation? 

A giant problem with countries letting in refugees is that these refugees are coming in with have fake passports for allowing these Syrians into the countries, and trying to realize the difference between fake passports and real ones. After the bombing in Paris the French had found a the passports from one of the bombers, that France had no information of from this man ever being allowed into the country. “The fingerprint was not in the French database, the senator said, and therefore officials believe the man was among a group of refugees and migrants.” France could have prevented this tragic accident from happening. The U.S should learn from Frances mistakes and realize many people in France that got very hurt by this attack. The U.S should protect their people and do whatever it needs to ensure the safety of the people and one way to ensure that is by cutting off the borders to these refugees.

But Enough About You – BTB100

Money seems to have a big role in our society; you can’t do much or get far if you don’t have any. Money is valuable in different ways, even when there is no possession of money, it still has much power behind it. In today’s society we put so much faith in the government as well as the banking system in what way they handle our money, and if they are treating it in the right manner. But when the government and banking system failure to put it in a good manner, they force the people to place there money in the hands of someone else. We as people have no clue what happens in the banks, or how they take care of our money. People see the way money works as being simple; we either have money to our name or we don’t—that’s it. However, after being introduced to this assignment, the Yap Fei, US gold, French francs, Brazilian cruzeros, and debit accounts now seem similar. No one cares too sees their money being transferred as long as the proper balance is being put into place. When we get paid, we aren’t handed cash, we don’t receive a physical check, the money’s all directly transferred to our bank account, and we just have to trust that we got our increase in money.

Robust Verbs – BTB100

Recently a reoccurring problem have been taking place in Vancouver, with heroin addicts committing crimes to support their drug habits. The “free heroin for addicts” program is doing everything they can to stop the addicts. A problem Vancouver seem to encounter a lot is that these drug addicts are committing large crime rate due to these addicts. An obvious analogy is that addicts are having a hard time getting through their day to day lives. Daily activities such as jobs, interactions, and relationships are hard to maintain when heroin has been taking over the addicts life. When being addicted, addicts will do whatever they can to do to get their hands on the drug, which usually leads to crime related activities. The of crimes committed are based around robbery, for which it makes it easier for these addicts to get money to exchange for heroin. When it comes to these addicts trying to get there hands on heroin there are no limits to where they will go, so that they can feed their addiction. Problems that occur with this program is that it doesn’t really ween these addicts off using heroin. The program is only trying to save the city from rising crime rates that occur from these addicts. When Vancouver provides heroin, these addicts will be off the streets, which in turn will prevent them from committing minor street crimes. Handing drugs to the addicts will also keep the heroin users out of the hospital for which they can monitor over these user. While hospitals have to deal with people that want to use bad drugs or unsanitary needles, addicts tend to find themselves in a position of not being unable to afford hospital bills and hard to cope without the drug. A program that gives people free heroin in the cleanest way possible. Which will in turn fix the city  but not the addiction that these people face.

Rebuttal – BTB100

The US is seen as a powerhouse nation and one of the strongest military power out there in the eyes of the people. But while having so much power can be beneficial, in today’s world more problems are occurring rather than good. Whenever there is a problem people see since we have such a strong military and have been known for changing the tides in a war we should intervene and just go in win the battle and get out but there are many more problems that US face when it comes to getting involved. Why is it that we never hear anything about the united nations getting involved which was created to prevent battles to occur and create a better world.

The US feels it has to get more involved because they can not agree terms with other following, which totally makes the whole reason why the United Nations were created pointless. This organization was made after the world war to prevent wars, but since countries like Russia and China have different plans, while other countries realize the problems going on in Syria and realize they have no need to be involved. President Obama felt upset that France and Britain are making no attempt to get involved. But understanding where France is coming from I wouldn’t want to be involved either after the attacks they received at Paris and bombing that occurred all around there, the US as well has dealt with a lot of problems with terrorism speaking that almost 1 in every 6 people say the biggest problem they face here in America are terrorism. Other countries realize there is no need to get involved, and these are countries that are constantly dealing with the United Nations and terrorism, countries like France think about there people first and safety of them, US should do the same.

A major concern for bringing soldiers to other countries where warfare is occurring is what threatens our soldiers will face such as death, as a country we shouldn’t be sending our own men to a place where they risk their lives in order to protect other  countries citizens because they don’t have the great military strength that we do have here in America to me it’s just bizarre.  Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr believes a way to defend the Syrians is to send men in and risk their lives .“Only an overwhelming land force can impose order and peace on that tortured piece of real estate. We would lose people as would our allies, but the alternative is to simply stand idly by while this tragedy unfolds.” As he describes so in the article “The U.S. Should Intervene in Syria in a Big Way” I completely disagree with this, by sending in men you risk there lives and create more chaos, and then he goes on to say “I don’t mean more bombing, more pathetic efforts at diplomacy and heaven forbid any more red lines.” to me bombing would be more of a reasonable idea if he plans on sending soldiers in. No matter what ISIS will feel threatened and strike back throughout the years they have shown no sense of hiding back and laying low they will strike back to the ones who intervene with their battles. So either way by getting involved you will cause problems so if that’s the case, blow off a few bombs take your men out and see how they react because either we send our men into a death mission or bring terror to our country which threatens the national security and the people. Which is why I believe we shouldn’t even get involved because no good will even come out of this. If the world saw this as a major problem others would be getting involved but as you can see France and England are backing out because they got more problems to deal with rather then help someone else out.

U.S has admitted to already attempting to bomb Syria even though it was a failure and was believed to help ISIS rather then destroying them. In the article “U.S admits it Bombed Syrian Troops.” by Nancy Youssef, she goes on to talk about how   “as the strikes intended, the coalition may instead been a boon for the terror group.” Now by U.S doing such an awful attack in bombing not only did they set up a possible chance for a counter attack by ISIS they also made ISIS feel that they were stronger. U.S conducted such awful planning, if they were to ever attack again they better make sure they have a better plan because ISIS will be plotting a plan as well. By doing these actions many Americans can be effected whether something happens sooner or later ISIS has been notorious for attacking random place and we may never know if the United States is there next target. The government should next time realize there are more important things in life then bombing, and worry about the major concerns in America

Work Cited

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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lt-gen-clarence-e-mcknight-jr-/syria_1_b_8269072.html

Spencer, Richard. The Telegraph “How Syria and the bloody conflict has torn the UN Security Council apart” October 7 2015. November 11 2016. Web

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11915649/How-Syria-and-the-bloody-conflict-has-torn-the-UN-Security-Council-apart.html

Youssef, Nancy. The Daily Beast “U.S admits it Bombed Syrian Troops.”  Sep 18 2016. Nov 20. 2016. Web

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/18/did-the-u-s-just-slaughter-syrian-troops.html

Causal Argument – BTB100

The threats we received from terrorism has become a giant problem in today’s society, we fear from going to some big event such as a big sporting events that will resolve in being attacked, due to past terrorist attacks that occurred. A few examples of these terrorism attacks that occurred would be the Boston marathon and the bombing in the Germany vs France soccer game before the European Cup which resulted in an unbelievable amount of security on all areas of France after. Due to terroristic threats occurring at major events, the people fear from experiencing some of the most entertaining events the world has to offer. By terrorists proving there strengths they might go on to do more drastic attacks to cause bigger problems.

The people of The US, have mostly agreed that the number one problem that we face in The US is terrorism, according to Rebecca Riffkin, in her article “Americans Name Terrorism as No. 1 U.S. Problem”  she claims about one in every six americans would say they feel terrorism is the biggest problem going on in the world so that should be the first things we solve in America, rather then worrying abouts others issues. If the people agree on a problem, the goverment should react to this problem first before the sitautions gets worse. 

Terrorism is also been a problem in Syria with ISIS getting involved and causing mostly chaos and forcing people out of the country and deported to countries willing to accept these Syrians. ISIS is not a fan of the Syrians leaving, if these Syrians leave and they are gone, they have no one to terrorise which defeats the whole problem of terrorizing these people. By The US allowing these people to come into our own country causes many problems. Which in may have ISIS feel like they need to attack countries who are letting in these Syrians so that they can contain power in Syria. But a benefit could come out of having Syrians stay in Syria in terms of defeating ISIS. By having Syrians stay in Syria we allow ISIS to be all in one area of the world rather then in all different countries, which will allow the counter terrorism programs to interven and finish the problem easily. 

First off this will be a threat to ISIS and will cause them to do an unethical response such as another attack in fear of retaliation. The people of America feel unsafe already with terrorism so why should the government go looking out for more problems. They should be fixing their own problem and exterminating terrorism here first. Once they do so, they can prepare for these other problems that may occur in the future. By getting involved with these issues in Syria we cause the national security to get into self defense mood, which will cause more fear for the american people which is not something the people would look forward too.

Another problem with letting in these Syrian refugees is we don’t truly know who is coming in. Many of these people are coming in with past histories such as rape and murder, know we are letting these people in with these lifestyles. By letting these Syrians in with these types of lifestyles they will inflict this on our own people because the government didn’t know who they were truly letting in. As well as some of these Syrian refugees have forged papers and are really with ISIS, know we are letting in these people who we are trying to take out and defeat. The US should have great knowledge of the people in the country, and if they don’t then how could they truly promise the people of US there safety. By having these Syrians in your causing more problems rather then solving one, these people have all different types of life styles that we may not be aware of that they could inflict on our own people so why just stop the problem by not letting them in.

The best bet for the US would be to let other countries take action on the problems that are going on in Syria and just have the US worry about themselves. Even though other would believe to stop terrorism we should go attack it head on, which could be a way to go about it but in worrying about our people of America we should let others intervene and fix our own problems first and then help other countries. The US has many issues to deal with between its own problems to worry about how another country is doing and ealing with there problems. If it is such a big concern to the world why hasn’t anyone else stepped in and interven.   

New sources

Riffkin, Rebecca. Gallup “Americans Name Terrorism as No. 1 U.S. Problem” November 3 2016. December 14 2015. Web

http://www.gallup.com/poll/187655/americans-name-terrorism-no-problem.aspx

Fantz, Ashley. CNN “ More than half the nation’s governors say Syrian refugees not welcome” november 3 2016. November 2015. Web

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/world/paris-attacks-syrian-refugees-backlash/

Rosenthal, Max. Mother Jones “Here’s What Republicans Don’t Get About Refugees” November 3 2016. November 17 2015. Web

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/11/heres-what-it-takes-to-enter-us-as-a-syrian-refugee