With the release of a second video warning on September 3 from ISIS to America, it is apparent that we must make a stand. ISIS expresses its terrorizing intentions clear. The members plan to establish their own country with origins in Syria and Iraq where the sole religion is Sunni-Islam.
When the Sunni-Islamic ISIS organization was founded after the dissolving of al-Qaeda, another Islamic extremist organization, it has been growing in numbers and relentlessly pushing into more and more territory of innocent Shia-Islamic Iraq and Syria since mid-2014. With around 10,000 ISIS militants fighting against 250,000 Iraqi soldiers and hundreds of specialized Iranian soldiers, the odds seem outrageously far from ISIS' favor. It is due to Iraq's disorganization that ISIS has been able to capture multiple cities including Mosel, Iraq's second most populous city, with virtually no opposition.

With this heated excitement, American journalist Steven Sotloff sought to pursue the intense tales directly on the battlefield. Having been captured by ISIS, the tension is even higher as they have released the new warning video of Sotloff's beheading on September 3, even after the previous beheading of James Foley on August 19, which threatened war if we do not halt airstrikes against their territory.

The Obama administration has announced that they will not be sending in ground troops until Iraq's government agrees to work with the US and intelligence identifies a larger number of visible ISIS targets. It's a strenuous uphill battle using only airstrikes in a vast desert. In reality, we are poking needles in a pincushion; we are fighting a weak enemy with even weaker weaponry. 

In my mind, I believe waiting for a problem to become a problem is the way, in this case, you lose allies from anti-ISIS countries and create a threat larger than is necessary. What we do not need are defined enemy targets before engagement. We need to be firm and band ourselves together against the common enemy. In short, America should demand cooperation of forces, then send only enough leaders required to control and organize allied armies of Iraq and Iran at minimum. Organized and unified, the microscopic 10,000 army strong ISIS would surely be cut short of their ultimate goals and be extinguished with minimal damage dealt. There are more problems than just ISIS. Don't procrastinate on dealing with issues when they'll just pile up and drown you.