The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, has rampantly been in the media with its violent actions, including multiple beheadings of citizens and sexual violence throughout the middle east.

However recently there has been less and less coverage of this radicalist group, and that in itself is a problem.

Currently the premise of ISIS in the minds of people is that the group is crazy and irrational; however, looking into their actions, they are actually smart and understand advanced tactics that allow them attract people from around the world to come and join their cause.

There should be more coverage of this group. Many say that ISIS will just destroy themselves, but with the way that things are going, it doesn’t look like that will happen, and if so, not anytime soon.

ISIS is smarter and stronger than a lot of the politicians are giving it credit for, and because of that, their might is underestimated. Politicians don’t understand how to counter all of their propaganda being spread around the world. Therefore, social media-using muslim youths are attracted to ISIS’s cause; some who feel ostracized choose to join it.

The immense growth and power of ISIS is from a political standpoint and not a militarized one, thus meaning that ground troops will not be able to fully disassemble the group. The only option that the US is left with to be able to completely destroy ISIS is to get help from the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. However al-Assad benefits from the group’s presence, and so he would be highly unlikely to help.

This needs to be shown more in the media rather than politicians stating that the group is weak and all the US has to do is send troops, and voila, that’s it. That is probably far from the truth, as ISIS is ramping up their efforts with social media and in their local communities.

ISIS has created schools that teach young children how to fight, according to Zack Beauchamp, writer for Vox. The groups is also donating money to hospitals, trying to grow their support.

ISIS is a group that was originally apart of Al-Qaeda; they split themselves off, and because of this, they have learned what has worked and what has not. ISIS is not going to go away anytime soon, which means they should be covered so the public understands the might and terror that they have and can prepare accordingly.