Si_Crewe wrote:The whole "fuck 'em, let 'em go" attitude seems rather daft to me.
It's not that I have any particular sympathy for the people who've gone but it seems naive in the extreme to simply assume not caring about those who've gone should be the limit of our concern.
To me, that's kinda like the police showing up at the scene of a car crash and saying "Ah, fuck 'em. That'll teach them to drive properly" rather than bothering to find out whether all the cars involved were in proper working order, whether there's something unsafe about the road, whether another vehicle actually caused the crash, whether all the drivers were fit to drive or if there was any other reason for the crash.
If you don't care to consider all that stuff, you're never going to prevent other car crashes happening - and some of them WILL involve innocent people.
Seems like a similar thing here.
I don't believe that all those who've toddled off to Syria are poor, innocent, gullible, suckers but I'd bet that there ARE causal factors which have led to them allowing themselves to be indoctrinated with extremist ideals and if we don't bother our arses to try and discover what those factors are the situation is never going to improve.
And bear in mind that not all of these "traitorous cunts/whores" are just quietly fucking off to Syria. Some of them are staying here to blow up buses and trains or chop heads off passing squaddies.
There is a big difference with your example - first it is the Police's duty to turn up at car crashes where life has been endangered, in fact it is the law - Whereas it is totally not against the law for people to travel to any country in the world they want to, if that country allows them in - it certainly has nothing to do with us.
So why are we getting other countries to arrest people and then paying for them to be flown back to the UK, if they aren't breaking any UK laws? - If they want to go, let them go - just don't let them back when they've had enough.