Big Ideas Paper

When going through the reading and trying to find out what would be the ideal situation for the US when thinking about the Syrian civil war and bringing that to an end; I found that the US wanted to go about this by pushing ISIS out of their territory hoping that will bring an end to them and their terroristic ways. The US doesn't want to send a bunch of troops overseas to try and take care of this problem so they are trying to bring an end to it through helping their allies fight them and supply resources for their allies as well. By doing this they hope that it will bring an end to the Syrian civil war as well as decrease the amount of large terror attacks immensely. The US also wants to bring Assad out of power in hope to reshape Syria as a nation. The US has an interest in the Syrian civil war and why they want it to come to an end can be implicated in 3 ways. First, the US has stated that they want to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic state due to the fact that they have threatened the US and its allies many times and are a source of international terrorism, which they are trying to bring to an end. Second, this Syrian conflict has destabilized the region, even beyond the Islamic state