After many months of hibernation, I finally return to my north and my south, looking at the beautiful world of geopolitics, full of intrigue and confusion , the The world of the new emerging threat, ISIS, caught my attention. Therefore, diving into a study of this new threat, which highlights a connection to the Great War on Terror, some questions arise: who are we really fighting? What is really waging war and whether we the United States have paved the way for ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and what is the path to take to secure these delicacies needs to be carefully examined. Thus looking at the white elephant from all paradigms, one answer can be found in a statement released by the Human Rights Observatory's deputy director of external relations Caroll Bogert (Watch 2014, np). Carol during a session at the Scripps College humanities Institution speaking on “Human Rights in the War on Terror – We Are Safer After 9/11” underlined a very vital element of the war and explained the difficulty that defining this war presented in the resolve or take a stand on who is right and who is wrong. According to Caroll Bogert (2004), “We have no fixed definition of terrorism,” “we have no fixed enemy,” and “We have no fixed definition of war…we don't even have a battlefield” (Bogert 2005, np) . Therefore, Bogert elaborated further by stating that in these circumstances, such as war itself, defines the unbalanced nature it presents in clearly defining an enemy, a fault, and an appropriate punishment. Being a true and legal statement elaborated by Vilho Harle and Sami Moisio (2008), “Who is a terrorist is an exclusive and sovereign right of the United States. The terrorist is the enemy of the United States” (Harke and Moisio 2008, 350). So, this is where we come across ongoi...... middle of paper...... 2013.Shoham, Dany. “The Chemical and Biological Threat of Islam.” Chapter 3 in Muhammad's Monsters: A Comprehensive Guide to Radical Islam for Western Audiences, edited by David Bukay, 255-281. Green Forest, AR: Ariel Center for Policy Research, 2004.Tiffen, Rodney. “The Public Case for War: Australian Use of Intelligence and the Case of the Iraq War.” In Intelligence and National Security Policy on Iraq: British and American Perspectives, edited by James Pfiffner and Mark Thythian, 106-126. Texas: Manchester University Press, 2008.Toaldo, Mattia. The Origins of the United States' War on Terror: Lebanon, Libya, and American Intervention in the Middle East. Oxon: Routledge, 2013.See, Human Rights. Carroll Bogert. 2014. http://www.hrw.org/bios/carroll-bogert (accessed 17 June 2014). Websters. Websters Dictionary: "Terrorism". Ashland, Ohio: Landoll Publications, 1997.
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