How America Helped ISIS

On October 1, 2014, Andrew Thompson a veteran of operation Iraqi freedom who served eight years in the United States military and Jeremi Suri a Professor at University of Texas Austin provided an argument on How America helped ISIS in the New York Times newspaper. The logical sequence and reasoning of how over time the United States helped Isis made the commentary pretty attractive. According to that commentary, a majority of top Islamic leaders, all former prisoners under the United States supervision with partnership with Iraq after 2003. Those extremists’ leaders were intending to attack the United States before their detention. While spending their time in prison, they had the chance to widen their fanatic way of thinking to other illiterate people who were not guilty of any violent crimes which made the prison at “Camp Bucca” listed as an example a recruitment for terrorism. So it went on, those quite few dangerous radicals affected plenty of innocent people. Extremist had the best shot of spreading their way of thinking since they were only separated by sectarian lines, it was very obvious to anyone but unluckily few American military leaders noticed. The moderate detainees were forced to listen to clerics advocating jihad and all feared of breaking any religious rules. Even though in 2007 American military leaders tried to separate terrorists from moderates’ detainees but it was too late the damage was done the extreme version of Islam was imposed on thousands of prisoners. The extremist ruled the prison, they physically assaulted all moderate detainee who refused to obey to their rules. In 2009, after “Camp Bucca” was closed, American still tried to identify the most dangerous detainees but the limited language skill and the poor record keeping led to failure. After the United State withdrew from Iraq the Islamic state under Iraqi custody were freed. In conclusion, large detention facilities only create the seeds for further radicalization and violence, the United States must convince its regional partners to avoid mixing radicals and moderates, and provide alternatives to prison for small-scale criminals or else we will be stuck in the same pattern over and over again. In my opinion this commentary is based on facts, numbers, names and logical observation which makes sense to me. This kind of terrorism can’t be spread from a day to another, it takes years and years to get that amount of population to believe in this type of theory. Finally, all political parties should take this issue very seriously, there is no winning or losing here, no getting elected, no debates, no popularity contest and no famous speeches, the only thing that comes out from such an organization is killing innocent, harmless and guiltless people.