Diego Velazquez

Economics of Globalization
Position Paper
An open letter from the UN on ISIS
There is no grey area about this, ISIS must be stopped. They have demonstrated a
great threat to peace and national security. As a representative of the United Nations, it
falls upon me to openly address this issue. There is no question that ISIS must be
stopped. The continual attacks on civilians and innocent people is nothing short of
inhuman, and they stand to be charged with crimes against humanity . We have already
passed an anti-terror resolution, and we hope to see as many nations as possible support
it. We want to see this taken up as a global issue and we all must work together to truly
end this and bring this conflict to a resolution. The one major point that must be made
that I fear may occur is that this is an issue that as a world we should work to support
Iraqi forces and help them take back their nation, not simply go in and take control and
do everything for them. The Iraqi people have been through terrible turmoil for the past
20 or so years and could help them but in going one step forward they would go 4 steps
back. They need to stand as their own nation and not have anyone else essentially take
control as ISIS is attempting to.

The United States has taken it upon themselves time and time again to be the law
enforcement of the world, and it should not be their job to do so, nor should they feel an
obligation to do so or use these actions as a method of spreading their already gigantic
grasp on the world. The US is just shy of being an empire and relies heavy on modern
day imperialism for its influence and control over foreign nations. This does not mean the
US should not be involved in this however. They are the greatest military force in the
world and the assistance they can provide would be invaluable to Iraq . The key is for
them to assist according to the terms of the UN and the Iraqi forces, rather than their own
will. The US has a history of overstepping their bounds and forcing themselves into a
position that they have not been asked to take. We want desperately to avoid the US
holding the same position it has in Iraq for the last 20 years. They are a strong and
sovereign nation and should be treated as such. Nations such as France have pledged
support and this is exactly what we need. Currently we are still working on convincing
other major nations to join us in the hopes that by doing so we will have the strength to
stop ISIS as quickly as possible and show other terrorist groups the strength of a united
world.
ISIS has been deemed too brutal of even Al-Qaeda, let that be a sign of how much
of a threat they pose. They were once a part of Al-Qaeda, but they split from them
roughly around 2006 due to disobeying orders and continuing to kill civilians and act as
their own entity. They aim to set a caliphate in Iraq and they are using radically violent

methods and are killing anyone who does not agree with them. They are also attracting
westerners to join their cause and it is something that we should be worried about . They
are attracting Muslims who feel some disconnect to who they are and feel some need to
contribute, even if its such a radical group. They are attracting non-Muslims by giving
them something special to be a part of and do something. This is dangerous, with the
media already glorifying mass murders, this only continues to prove how giving these
evil people a podium hurts our societies. ISIS is a radical Muslim group, with heavy
emphasis on radical. They are not representative of most Muslim people, and do nothing
but hurt innocent people, hurt the integrity of nations they are attempting to take, and hurt
the image of true Muslims who are nothing like the evil of ISIS.
There are no two ways around it. ISIS is evil and must be stopped. Our nations
must band together to end the evil they are causing, and we must do it as one . We cannot
however let this be an opportunity for another nation to place itself in Iraq and essentially
control and heavily influence their government. They have been through far too much
and are finally getting back up and demonstrating their strength. They are nothing short
of unfortunate in having this terrible threat to them and the world living within their
borders and working to destroy what they are. ISIS is a radical group and their motives
are clear, and their methods are barbaric and gruesome. They want to take Iraq and take
the Muslim states and bring them into a dark age of Islam, severely damaging the image
of their people and causing nothing short of an international tragedy.