[Magnum44]

I don’t know about the legal ramifications you suggest. The ISIS captives are probably ‘enemy combatants’ so they are being treated as such. They will never legally enter the US, unless we re-elect another Obama, in which case we have bigger problems.Trump was trying to get certain host countries to take the prisoners but that is obviously a slow and frustrating process. So you ask do we stay to keep them locked up? What was the alternative? Personally I’d be happy if the Kurds just made them disappear tonight. We couldn’t do it but I wouldn’t care if someone else did. My concern is the Kurds will retreat, and never be a reliable ally again, and Erdogan is going to let the ISIS fighters go free. What a Effin mess that will be. Couldn’t we have a little patience and sort this out without chaos?

[Alberta's Child]

The biggest reason to get the hell out of Syria is this: If we keep those 20,000 ISIS “prisoners” in our custody, then at least a dozen of them are destined to become members of Congress within 20 years.

I’ll bet nobody laughs at this ... because it’s hardly an outlandish possibility.