TOW #18 Non-fiction Editorial "ISIS is the enemy"

ISIS is becoming a more real threat every day. Just a few days ago, they burned a Jordanian pilot and released a video of it. These sort of grotesque and inhumane acts that ISIS is committing require leadership from the global community, and according to the Washington Times, America needs to lead the charge towards eradicating ISIS. The Washington Times uses experiments to show that America and specifically Obama has to take actions to stop ISIS.

Most of the editorials evidence comes from an experiment that was conducted by Ari Horowitz that shows why America's leaders have to take charge and crush ISIS. Horowitz conducted the experiment at UC Berkeley where he walked around the campus waving the black flag of ISIS, but "only a few turned their heads or muttered a few words of lethargic protest. A few students raised their hands in salute with the clenched fist of the “revolution.”A little later, he walked across the campus waving the flag of Israel with cries of praise for the Jewish state. This aroused the lethargic students. Boos, hisses and cries of “child killer” and “Zionist genocide” followed him across the campus green." 

Through this experiment, the author is trying to show that even the best and brightest of America are unaware of the true atrocities of ISIS. The author then quickly brings up the point that, luckily, it isn't the students at these colleges that are making policies, but it is the powerful people in the government. If the best and brightest are not fit enough to lead the charge against ISIS, who will? Obama has to bring in a competent overseas militant leader that take effective action and back that person with powerful determination of his own in order to end one of the greatest threats of this generation.

ISIS Beheading, showing the cruelty and barbarism of ISIS