Get rid of 'em the easy way

[mahnmut]

This is about escape from responsibility. I'm talking of a scandal that almost no one cares about: a number of Western governments don't want to take responsibility for their citizens who've joined ISIS and who've now been detained. The Syrian Kurds for example are having huge difficulties keeping the large number of captured ISIS fighters, so they're hoping the West would take their own citizens back at some point, and prosecute them there. And because the situation on the ground is pretty dire and unstable, there's a risk that the detained jihadists could be set free and join the fight again.

The ministers of defense of the anti-terrorist coalition met earlier this month in Rome to discuss this problem. James Mattis, the US secretary of defense (being the Kurds' biggest ally) tried to convince his European partners of the necessity of such a step. But he was unsuccessful: neither the British nor the French showed any readiness to take their citizens back. Germany's position still remains unclear.

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