Return to sender
Seems whilst we've been talking about the return of the ISIS bride this is just the tip of the iceberg
a tweet from President Trump -“the caliphate is ready to fall. The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. “The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them.”
He then went on to say “The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100% caliphate victory!”
In the west we've got used to putting our rubbish in bins & leaving it to someone else to deal with, looks like we're about to get it back
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Deal with yer own messes and let other countries do the same....
Why and how was It possible for a 15 year old to leave this country so easily and readily??
Why not hold yer head in shame that ye as a nation allowed that to happen so easily.....but now feign disgust that she wants back in.
Yes Niceguy you reap what you sow indeed....the British nation should reap what they sow....in allowing a child who wasnt legally able to drive, up sticks and leave to join ISIS in the blink of an eye.
I think prior military service under arms should be a requirement before seeking any elected position afterwards, but I am not King so that may never happen.
Why not hold yer head in shame that ye as a nation allowed that to happen so easily.....but now feign disgust that she wants back in."
The simple answer to that is the UK is a free country, the 3 girls left the UK on a holiday to Turkey, they'd left before the authorities were alerted to what they were doing, from Turkey they crossed the border into Syria, some others were stopped either in the UK or in Turkey, but the UK can not imo be held accountable for what people do on holidays abroad.
I assure you the disgust isn't feigned.
Or do we just shrug our shoulders and say that combatants can do as they please, including chopping people's heads off?
" members of the runaway schoolgirl’s local community have warned not to “trust her”, claiming that she could radicalise others. Moulana Abdul Malik, an iman at the Baitul Aman mosque near where Ms Begum grew up, said he supported the Home Secretary."
A petition on the government web site started last year (“ban all ISIS members from returning to the UK") and had enough support for a government response has now taken off & as of last night had over half a million votes so is now going to be debated in the house shortly.
Don't know if this story is true or not but I heard that 'Executive Outcomes', military contractors, held a vicious rebel movement at bay for two years with only 120 men, in Sierra Leone. After international pressure, they were replaced by 15,000 UN ( fifteen thousand ) peacekeepers, many many of whom the rebels promptly kidnapped or killed, causing their mission to be aborted. During those 2 years many lives were saved, mainly mutilated children, whose limbs were hacked off so preventing them to use a fire arm etc. in the future.
Why I'm mentioning this is there mere fact that most rebels have no respect for any rules or peace treaty's laid down by pacifists. They will only comply until they have regrouped and strengthened reserves. Then attack again.
Many innocent blue berets died unnecessarily.
Maybe this comment is irrelevant to your blog.
I can't see a simple solution to drone warfare, whilst remote control attacks do cause civilian loss of life would sending in live troops save any lives or amount to more deaths
I do remember my son going to Iraqi war. I marched against this war,
I did not believe Tony Blair to be honourable. My other son nearly fell out with me, marching against something his brother was in.
I had to explain, I was not against soldiers, but against men who sent our boys there. All very sad leaves one with much to think about that's all even after all this time.
All this and much more can make me quite morose at times BUT I'm lucky I keep moving
Take care zman blogs can sometimes drag us back not forward.
By the way your not old enough
This incident happened in Woodbrige, which was home to a USAF base & is now a British Army base, I have actually stayed on the base & thought at the time some of the locals were from a different planet.