Mike Moyers

The Secret Life of ISIS

    The Frontline program that I chose was The Secret Life of ISIS. Throughout the article, it described how ISIS came to be, ways that could have prevented ISIS from ever becoming a huge threat to the world, and mistakes made by past presidents that led to their uprising. There was a point and time where the United States had an opportunity to take out the present leader of ISIS, Zarqawi. When the CIA brought up the idea to the president at the time George W Bush, he and the executives at the White House came to the conclusion that now would not be a good time to start a war that they are currently not ready to fight in. The CIA were not very happy to hear these news, and now today it looks like the CIA would have made the better decision. Once Zarqawi was brought up in United Nations meetings he felt empowered and eventually took action. He attacked weak areas in Iraq with suicide bombers and eventually received support to try and take out the American army that were in there in an attempt to take over all that area. Zarqawi wanted to rule the Islamic state with the word of God being the leader. However, America was able to kill Zarqawi, but not his message. He had already convinced others to continue what he wanted to create and this idea had been the overall creation of ISIS. Bagdadi was the successor to Zarqawi, who looked to rebuild, refresh, and eventually make ISIS a very strong organization led by God.

    The production of this film was very important because people must know how ISIS was created and what they stand for. The more educated people become on certain topics like this the better we can prepare for similar occasions in the future. Evil around the world will never end; therefore, if we learn how these leaders gain control, strengthen these organizations, and grow to become terrorist organizations, we can all help stop these organizations from killing thousands of people around the world. I believe that these terrorist groups need to be contained by all means to keep every innocent person around the world safe. In countries like Iraq that do not have very strong governments, it is very easy for terror groups to take over these governments and to gain lots of their land. While they gain all of this power, they continue to gain lots of support. The more support that these groups gain will only continue to kill more people and to strike more fear to people all around the world. These groups feel like the way that they should lead these people come straight from God. However, they are very dangerous to their own people as well as other countries. If you are under the rule from one of these terror groups, you have to live under strict law, where you can be killed for just disagreeing to anything the leader believes that is right. People were stoned to death for being gay, beheaded for spreading the wrong message about their leaders, and so much more. ISIS was able to gain countries, weapons, tanks, and missiles, which is the reason why countries like the United States are always trying to take them out. These terror groups are bloodthirsty, unpredictable, and are always prepared to kill anyone and anything in their path. They base everything that they believe and stand for off of God. While they can have the right to believe in anything they want to believe in, the killing of many people that may not believe the same thing as you is a completely different story. Many recent occasions have happened where either a suicide bomber, a shooting, or anything else where people have died have ended up being connected to a terrorist organization. This is one of the leading causes of murders in the Middle East especially are these terrorist attacks. They become more and more common as the months go by, and everyone needs to come together to find an effective plan to end these attacks to stop thousands of people from losing their lives. The United States may have not been recently attacked by terrorist organizations, but they are always on terror groups lists to attack as soon as they possibly can. This video showed a lot of things about ISIS and what they do and that they have to be stopped in the future.