Last fall, Patrick Maxwell, a 29-year-old Iraq war veteran now selling real estate in this bustling city, saw something in news footage of Islamic fighters in Iraq that he never saw as an infantry Marine there: the enemy. Mr. Maxwell is one of a small number of Americans many of them former members of the military who have volunteered in recent months to take up arms against the militants in Iraq and Syria, even as the United States government has hesitated to put combat troops on the ground. More than anything, they don't like ISIS and want to help, said Matthew Van Dyke, an American filmmaker who has spent time this winter with four American veterans covertly training a militia of Assyrian Christians in northern Iraq to resist the Islamic State. While the United States authorities have tracked and prosecuted citizens who try to join the Islamic State, it is unclear how they will respond to Americans fighting the group, especially since some Kurdish militias in Syria have ties to groups the State Department classifies as terrorist organizations. Behind the scenes, American officials have pressured the pesh merga to keep Americans out of the fight, according to American military veterans who have been in Iraq.
Oh great just what our country needs is another war! It is frightening to know that another potential threat could arise and that America can get involved in turmoil. With this in mind, the United States military needs to implement a plan to stop ISIS without sending our soldiers back there. After all, former President George W. Bush was widely criticized for his decision to go to war with Iraq even by the majority of Republicans in the United States and that's one reason why he left office with a 21% approval rating. The United States has performed air strikes on Iraq in an attempt to suppress the violence.
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