Current Event Blog #2

Molly Quaid
9.18.2014.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/world/middleeast/us-faces-tough-struggle-on-ground-to-oust-isis.html?ref=us

The United States was never fully aware of what terrorists were capable of until 911-a time where thousands of brothers, sisters, husbands, and wives were killed in a terrorist attack. The United States is under very close surveillance due to an ISIS threat. Obama is trying to deliver the best way to stop these terrorists from attacking us; but, in that effort, he is wasting time. Once a threat is made towards our nation, we must move on it.

Each and every day we try to think of solutions, we are putting ourselves in more danger. This article about the U.S. trying to ground ISIS relates to Plato's idea of different realities. One of the interpretations from Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" highlights how the escapee tries to see a different reality and attempts to tell the prisoners about it and they refuse to acknowledge what he is saying. That situation relates to the U.S. trying to deal with the ISIS threat because I believe that there is something we can do about it, but we are all stuck in one mindset-just like in Plato's "Allegory of the Cave."