The Insanity of our Allowing ISIS Combatants to Return to the West

[jordan179]

Right now, citizens of Western countries, to whom they have sworn allegiance, are joining the fighting forces of the Islamic State, fighting for a while in Iraq and Syria, and then returning home to the West.  And nothing is being done to capture or punish them

Comments

[gremy]

Re: Perhaps this is a simplistic solutions, but...

[justgoto]

How stupid can they get?

Re: Perhaps this is a simplistic solutions, but...

[marycatelli]

No, a simple solution is to try them for high treason.

[anonymous]

Solution: Offer amnesty to the man who kills Bashar al Assad.

[jordan179]

How would this destroy ISIS, end its hostility to the West, bring justice to its victims, or reduce the danger that returning combatants from ISIS might pose to the Western societies of whom they are citizens? ISIS does not exist solely to fight Bashar al Assad, and while his death would please me since the Assad regime has long nurtured other Muslim Terrorists (and Muslim Terrorists and their enablers are traitors to Civilization), it would do nothing to prevent ISIS establishing itself as the Isalmic Caliphate reborn.

[anonymous]

I don't care if it doesn't hurt Isis. It gets rid of the man who tried to kill the Arab Spring and his disgusting wife, and that's all that matters.

[jordan179]

When you preface a reply with "Solution" it implies that you are offering a solution to the problem outlined in the main post. You also claim to be humane, yet you would turn Syria over to a faction worse than the Assad regime, just for punishing Assad for tying "to kill the Arab Spring."

Or, more accurately, succeeding, given that the choice in Syria is now between Assad and ISIS -- or are you saying that you wanted to see the old-style Arab dictators replaced by truly monstrous regimes that would engage in the wholesale massacres of their own subjects, televise this and run it as recruiting ads?

[banner]

It just shows how much obama and his administration REALLY HATE America, that they are willing to let enemies of the country come here and do whatever they wish.
If we had a congress that gave a damn about the country, he'd be impeached and in jail for this.

Just shows how much the Democrat party hates America, and how many Republicans no longer seem to give a damn either.

[benschachar_77]

I don't recall any such thing happening in America.
I see it in Europe, though.

[whswhs]

A technical point that's relevant is that treason is not actually a felony. Treason is the category of crime that's above felony. For example, according to Wikipedia, the Treason Felony Act of 1848 reduced three forms of treason to felonies. At least, that's how I understand the matter; I'm not a lawyer. . . .