[pepsionice]

Another guy with nothing much in life worth living for....so running off to Syria to fight some civil war makes sense. There’s probably over a thousand Americans who’ve done the trip and faced reality in the real world.

[Alberta's Child]

I've been saying for years that Islam -- even radical Islam -- isn't really the problem that it's made out to be. The real problem is the growing ranks of disaffected misfits and losers (mostly males) who latch onto even the most idiotic and senseless "causes" as an outlet for their time, emotions and energy.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Some people are comparing this to the late 30’s when Americans and other Europeans ran off to Spain to fight in the Lincoln brigades and others for the free (i.e. communist) Spainards against Franco’s fascist forces.

In some respects it’s true as you have a proxy war going on in Syria between the major players of the middle east. Just as the Spainish civil war was a proxy war. However, though the Americans that came back were sympathetic to socialist and even communist causes, none of them were looking at blowing up places in our country or carrying on the war here at home. Proof of that is none of them did. We let these American jihadis back into the states, I think we all know that bad things will follow.

[Netz]

How weird it is to have an American named after a great US General and war hero, go to serve America's enemy. The Jihadis were probably in disbelief when he gave them his full ID information.