ISIS Thugs, Germany, and the Left-Over Mess

Back in 2013, when ISIS started up their civil war in Syria....there were German citizens with a Muslim background who packed up and left for the civil war.  It took about a year, but the Bundestag eventually reacted and made a law that said basically....'don't come back', and if you do come back....we will charge with a serious crime.

Well...as months passed, a fair number of these young men and women would drift off to the war (not just Germans, but French, Brit, etc), and find in a matter of weeks that the war was a terrible mess, and hopeless in countless ways.  They were blocked in various ways from escaping and a lot of them endeared to the bitter end, where they are held today via a US-Kurd jail-system. 

So President Trump said in a polite way....US occupation in the region is going to end, and the Kurds are left with this problem....they don't want the foreigners around.  They haven't said that they'd execute them but they'd like for them to just leave.

So Trump suggested....European countries need to take their problem-children back...charge them....put them into prison, and relieve the Syrians of the problem.

What happens in Germany?

The general scripted answer is that the law says if you left for this civil war.....you will be charged if you return.  I suspect a lot of these individuals would appreciate the charges, and the jail-time.  If the Germans were smart, they'd go to a de-brain-washing episode, and try to bring these folks back to reality while in a controlled environment. 

Are these civil war 'players' a threat?  Well....the simple answer here is yes.  Even if you de-program 90-percent and make them productive individuals after the civil war, you still have 10-percent who might filter through the prison system, and be a threat when they emerge from prison. 

PTSD folks?  That's the other part of this story.  Some of these individuals survived a pretty horrific period (going up to five years), with time in the Kurd prison.  They are stressed and it might take ten years to get them to a recovery stage.

So you come to the last part of this....politically, this is messed up.  Working-class Germans aren't going to be happy about this, and will object to the task ahead.  Their view will be that that ISIS thugs should not be brought back into Germany.  The politicians?  They'd rather not even think about this mess.