{"id":2802,"date":"2014-12-12T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2014-12-12T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:52:00","slug":"the-isis-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/the-isis-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Isis Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Story and Photo By Joseph Lee, Contributor <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What roles, if any, should the United States play in taking down ISIS, also know as the Islamic State\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2809\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Connie_Castillo_01-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2809 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Connie_Castillo_01-1-394x592.jpg\" alt=\"Connie_Castillo_01 (1)\" width=\"394\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Connine Castillo<\/strong> &#8212; \u201cI personally believe the United States should not be too involved. The U.S. should concentrate on our country\u2019s current problems.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2804\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Akisha_Gaitan_02-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2804 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Akisha_Gaitan_02-1-592x394.jpg\" alt=\"Akisha_Gaitan_02 (1)\" width=\"592\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Akisha Gaitan &#8212;<\/strong>\u201cI believe that the sooner the U.S. acts on the ISIS crisis going on, the sooner killings stop for Christians and other people being affected by them. We should not allow another genocide to happen.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2805\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ricardo_Ponce_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2805 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Ricardo_Ponce_01-394x592.jpg\" alt=\"Ricardo_Ponce_01\" width=\"394\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Ricardo Ponce<\/strong>\u2014 \u201cThe U.S. should support Middle Eastern countries but not declare war. We should not take full responsibility. World superpowers should work together. We need to stop going to war every chance we get.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2806\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sean_Lane_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2806 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sean_Lane_01-394x592.jpg\" alt=\"Sean_Lane_01\" width=\"394\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Sean Lane &#8212;<\/strong>\u201cI kind of go back and forth on the issue where sometimes I do think the United States needs to play a part in taking down malevolent groups in other countries, but ultimately I would prefer the United States stop getting involved in conflict in other countries.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2807\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Marcus_Siegel_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2807 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Marcus_Siegel_01-394x592.jpg\" alt=\"Marcus_Siegel_01\" width=\"394\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Marcus Siegel &#8212;<\/strong> \u201cI think we\u2019re doing the best job we can right now. I trust our president\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2808\" style=\"width: 592px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Hilario_B_Garcia_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2808 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theaccent.org\/accent2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Hilario_B_Garcia_01-592x394.jpg\" alt=\"Hilario_B_Garcia_01\" width=\"592\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Hilario B. Garcia<\/strong> &#8211;\u201cI believe the United States should take down ISIS by any means possible. The U.S. should start by sending drones first and gathering intelligence before sending troops.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and Photo By Joseph Lee, Contributor What roles, if any, should the United States play in taking down ISIS, also know as the Islamic State\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[61,173,294,392,499,532],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-akisha-gaitan","tag-connine-castillo","tag-hilario-b-garcia","tag-marcus-siegel","tag-ricardo-ponce","tag-sean-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/accent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}