You can't just change wardens and expect to neutralize ISIS prisoners. They are human beings. Being imprisoned is intolerable for most people; being imprisoned in chaotic conditions is impossible for anyone to cope with. They will cling to their malignant form of Islam. Their desperation will make them more militant, not less, and will enrage sympathizers who aren't captive and who hear about it.
You need people there to talk to them and to ensure that they're being treated decently.
I don't disagree with air power, but there have to be people involved on the ground level who have a motivation to work with prisoners other than not upsetting the United States. Brutalizing them or neglecting their basic needs; these are not appropriate responses.
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How is Mr. Assad going to be removed from power in Syria? I realize that everyone is hesitant to discuss that, but a civilized world can't allow him to remain.
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Is this the wrong time to mention climate change? Fine. I am gauche.
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I don't think that the Syrian Kurds should have had to move.
I don't think that Turkey should be rebuilding any part of Syria until Mr. Assad has left, and then what it should do is help refugees move back to where they're actually from if that's what they want to do. They're not pets or cattle, to be dropped off wherever it's most convenient for incorporated states to drop them. It is sickening to think of them being told that for information about what might have happened to everyone where they used to live, they'll have to contact an office run by the Assad government that has murdered or imprisoned everyone.
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