So recently, Paris, France was attacked by terrorists from the radical ISIS group. Around seven locations were attacked, from last I heard, and hundreds have been injured, over one hundred dead.
Pissed off and sad doesn't begin to explain my emotions, but please allow me to tell how I heard of this event. My brother is studying abroad in Paris, France, and my aunt texted my mother after hearing the news about the initial attacks. Now, my mother and I were running errands, so we hadn't seen the news. Worried about what was happening, my mother checked the news, and more worry ensued. After a long night of stress, my sister confirmed that my brother was in London, England visiting his girlfriend, but once my brother contacted my mother, things finally settled down, relatively.
So yeah, this event was too close to personal with me, and that's one thing I have to argue right now: Why do people tend to not care about a tragedy until it's personal? I swear to God, the United States is sounding like a bipolar Stalin, putting statistics into tragedies of other countries and even our own until it directly affects the government's image or stability. Sure, the words are gilded, but c'mon! There's not much that was done by the U.S. on the terrorists until now, when it's already too late to call them a minor threat!
The same thing happened with Hitler (no exaggeration). Adolf Hitler joined the Nazis, a small, insignificant political party in Germany after the Treaty of Versailles that ended the war. The Nazis started 'helping' the disabled, experimenting on them and training their people to not feel remorse when getting rid of fellow humans. Angry words about the treaty made a percentage of people follow the Nazis, although that percentage was only about 20% of Germany. Then, Hitler disobeyed the terms laid down by the Treaty of Versailles, though the League of Nations didn't do much to stop him. Step by step, Hitler eventually made power, and the second World War ensued.
With the radical Muslim terrorist group ISIS (that pretty much kills anyone, including other Muslims), it sounds somewhat similar. After being pummeled by America due to the 9/11 attacks, the terrorists were a smaller group that terrorized the people of Syria, Iraq, etc. and not too much was done about them. There were good moves and stupid moves by the United Nations, and countries directly affected by the terrorists were trying to get rid of them. Step by step, the terrorist organization grew until it was large enough to be designated by outside countries as a threat, though not much was done about it. Time flies, people are killed, and not much is done about them until — BAM! — the terrorists attack major countries. Aid is offered by other countries to France, but they don't decide to attack the terrorists directly. When Jordan was threatened, they sent bombs are scared the coward terrorists away from their country, and France has sent bombs to scare the terrorists away, but in America the President himself says he doesn't "want to speculate at this point in terms of who was responsible for this". So basically, no counter-attacks on the terrorists, besides sending loads of the Infantry to shoot them up slowly until we have to take those brave men back home. I mean seriously, plenty of people have died at this point, can't we do something about this situation, U.S.A.? I don't want to hear about my brother going off and getting killed before he has a chance at Rangers or Airborne. We've got to think strategy, and take care of these bad guys.
Then again, I'm just a common citizen and I'm not top-notched informed. If I gave any false information, please tell me as I want to better educate myself on this matter. But hey, we've got to agree at this point that terrorists are no good and should be dealt with.
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