2014
The year 2014 was a year marked with heavy violence as the world looked towards the U.S. to decide what needed to be done about the Syrian Civil war. As the Syrian Civil war picked up and increased to a violence level which brought forth the need of U.S. involvement following accusations that the Syrian government was using chemical weapons. Not only was the U.S. involvement necessary in Syria but also necessary in the fight against the fledgling extremist group ISIS or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.