Jordanians Attack Isis and Vow to Destroy Them - SSR

            I still remember to this day, hearing the name “Isis” and the acts they were doing at that time. I was at a friend’s bonfire just after winning a high school football game on a humid, exhilarating night. We as a team had just beaten the same team that knocked us out of the playoffs last year, so it was a glorious night to hang out with my closest friends. As I sat there, very tired from the game and the humidity, I watched the crackling fire as my friends all conversed around the fire. Suddenly the insidious name was brought up in the discussion and I snapped back to reality. I pulled out my phone and searched “Isis” and saw an unforgettable video of an Isis member beheading an American reporter. The reporter was causing no harm and no threat to the terrorist group, but Isis just doesn't like Americans. As I watched the rest of the video I watched in awe and was extremely bewildered at what my eyes have just saw. I sat there and started trembling with fear at the thought of another attack just like the ones on 9/11, but possibly much worse. I weakened at the thought of losing loved ones and possibly my own life. Then I thought that I shouldn't feel scared, or even worried for that matter. But, why isn’t anyone taking action against these senseless terrorists?

            After about 6 months of wondering what would happen next with these terrorists, the Jordanians finally decide to take action. After multiple beheadings and acts of terrorism including the raid on a newspaper company in France, and the beheading of a Japan pilot as well as the burning of Moath al-Kasasbeh, who was alive, a Jordan pilot, the Jordanians decide to take action against the organization. The Jordanians decided that they had enough with this wild and out of control organization and decided to attack certain ammo caches and training centers all throughout Syria. The attacks were performed by their fighter jets in honor of the fallen pilot who was recently burned alive by the Isis organization. The raid was called "Moath the Martyr", however the positions they attacked were unspecified. The Jordanians are trying to prove that they don’t want the Isis group around for much longer. The armed forces of Jordan claimed that “this is just the beginning and you shall know who the Jordanians are," trying to prose fear into the Isis organization.

            So what’s next? Today, I don’t feel as worried as I did back in September but the terrorist group is still rising today. Many more nations like Jordan need to open their eyes, to start taking action against Isis. Many negative outcomes are evident and inescapable if we don’t take action today. Like Al Qaeda, Isis is capable of turning against nations like our own, and will start planning a detrimental attack like the ones on 9/11. Now I don’t know about you but I would love to prevent this from happening in the near future, or forever for that matter. I know, as an unimportant little teenager from the city of Cortland, Ohio, that I, myself, will not be able to stand up against this group. I am putting my trust, my life, and my promising future into the hands of my governing officials, to make a decision to take the action to stand against Isis. Our nation has more firepower, military experience, intellect, skills, intelligence, maturity, self-being and so on, than the little organization that was probably formed in someone’s basement, just because they don’t like America. As we watch and read these news stories on this striving organization, we just watch in fear without action following our feelings. I feel as if this group needs to be brought to justice, thus bringing forth peace within our homes once again. However, we will never feel 100 percent, completely safe because I think that it’s safe to say that this world is crowded with lunatics. So as a part of America, I feel as if we have a large target on our backs, so feeling “safe” seems to be a mystical, forgotten word. However, eliminating and destroying this vicious organization will relieve a great amount of that fear from us all. So we need to join forces with nations like Jordan, to take a stand against Isis, to eradicate them forever.