And what---have them return and spread the very hatred that motivated them to go join ISIS?
Among people who have the means and the opportunity to teach them better? Yes, that certainly looks like the way to go for me.
I suppose one might pray for them to die instead, or kill them directly, or just hope that they somehow fail to spread their festering hatred despite from all appearances being bound to. But I can't in good faith prefer any of those other options.
I'm all for implementing rehabilitation-related measures (just found out that they are still quite young), don't get me wrong, but it would be counterproductive to welcome back anti-national elements so readily.
No, Poeticus. I am sorry to have to disagree, but disagree I do.
By rejecting them you
prove them right, at least far as their perceptions go. By a more pragmatical perspective, reneging them leaves them little choice but to carry on, and little reason to consider what little alternatives they have.