The United States and the Air Attack

The president of the United States has made a decision. He began the bombardment of the areas taken by force by the terrorist group Islamic State. The first attack was in Syrian territory and other military objectives were centered in Iraq. In both countries, the impact caused by the terrorist group — death, destruction, occupation and control — has been significant.

Syria confronts the Sunni group from the viewpoint of a tyrannical, secular government. Various rebel groups in this bloody civil war are of a religious orientation. The cost of this war, which did not end when the Islamic State group suddenly announced the budding caliphate, is around 300,000 dead.

For Iraq, the situation is particularly complicated, now that its military apparatus has been destroyed by American soldiers in the occupation to overthrow Saddam Hussein. The allied government sent out another SOS to Washington before the appearance of the Islamic State group.

For President Barack Obama the disastrous decision, hastened by the beheadings that were committed by the terrorist group, puts him once again at the forefront of another military invasion, this time an air campaign with bombardments that seek to weaken the Islamic State group’s strategic position and score another geopolitical win. European allies and other neighboring countries have joined in with this plan.

Obama, who worked to take troops out of the Middle East, returns to war in the face of criticism by his Republican opponents, who demanded timely and straightforward action.