Surname 1 Name: Professor: Title: Date: Syrian Crisis (Civil Wars) Outline I. Introductory Paragraph The current state in Syria puts the United States at a dilemma. Thesis Statement: The United States should withdraw its support of Bashar al-Assad’s opposition and put an end to the war. II. Body of my Argument A. Background Information B. Reasons or Evidence to Support my Claim 1. Claim: Civilians will always suffer no matter what side drops the bombs. 2. Claim: The United States has the power to stop the war. III. Addressing the Opposite Side The rebels will cause more bloodshed when they win. Syria has no future, at least not a bright one, with Assad. IV. Conclusion There is no need for more bloodshed in Syria. This is a proxy war that ends with the lives of innocent civilians. Surname 2 Introduction Russia has launched its attacks on the enemies of the Bashar al-Assad government, a group it chooses to call terrorist targets. This puts the United States in a dilemma. On the one hand, it has to decide between accepting the continuity of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for the foreseeable future, a move that will put an end to the reign of terror. On the other hand, it will continue to fund the rebels of the Syrian government, which will lengthen the civil war that will end once the rebels are defeated and deal with Russia and Syria later. The United States should withdraw its support of Bashar al-Assad’s opposition and put an end to the war. Moscow has, for a long time, been closely allied with Syria, with most of the Syrian military having been trained and equipped by Russia. Moscow decided to boost its political and military support of Syria, and this move prevented the collapse of Syrian forces from the pressure of its opposition. To Moscow’s defense, it had to intervene to prevent Islamic extremist groups from raising the “black flags.” Western forces, diplomats, and their allies have continuously accused Russia of targeting groups supported by the West as well as launching attacks to hospitals and schools hence risking the lives of civilians (Doucet). Looking at this situation from a humanitarian point of view, the missiles launched by the United States, however carefully selected, will take the lives of innocent civilians who did not ask for this proxy war. Most of Assad’s conflict zones are within highly populated regions of Syria. Using missiles in these zones will result in the same outcome as that of the 1999 Kosovo war that claimed the lives of 500 civilians following a NATO bombing that was designed to save innocent lives. If the United States decides to intervene by sending airstrikes, it will only serve to worsen the refugee crisis (Dreyfuss). Surname 3 The United States and the European Union could give Assad and Russia a proposition to cease and desist its operations by a certain date or risk facing additional sanctions. By linking these sanctions to Russia’s operations in Syria would be seen as a major setback on Putin’s side. He has been waiting on Europe to lift the Ukraine sanctions this coming season. The United States could use this as leverage – the sanctions will not cease until Russia changes its activities in Syria as much as Ukraine (Wright). If the United States withdraws its support of the rebels and succeeds in coercing Russia with its sanctions, Assad will have won the war. However, he will have paid it with the price of peace. His reign will constantly be opposed by various rebellious groups. This means that the current civilian war could continue perpetually, hence increasing the civilian body count. It may also be broken down into a series of resilient insurrections similar to what happened after the Iraq invasions, whose outcome was nothing short of terrorism and insecurity. The Syrian crisis cannot be solved by any military means. In other words, Syria has no future, at least a bright one, with Assad. His reign has been built on the foundation of the death of more than 500,000 people, as well as the internal and external displacement of more than 11 million Syrian citizens. Conclusion It will be better to argue the Syrian case from a humanitarian point of view, which seems to be the most logical and direct, unlike the other argument that is filled with a lot of gambling with the lives of innocent civilians. At the end of the day, this is a proxy war, and neither the citizens of the United States nor Russia will get hurt directly. What has happened in Aleppo does not need to happen again, and if the United States can do something about it, why not take the less costly way out? Surname 4 Works Cited Doucet, Lyse. “Why Is Russia Engaged in Aleppo?” BBC News, 16 Nov. 2016, www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37995780. Accessed 12 June 2020. Dreyfuss, Bob. “No War With Syria!” Www.Thenation.Com, 26 Aug. 2013, www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-war-syria/. Accessed 12 June 2020. Wright, Thomas. “Solving Obama’s Aleppo Dilemma.” Brookings, 12 Feb. 2016, www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/02/12/solving-obamas-aleppodilemma/. Accessed 12 June 2020.
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