(March 5, 2019 at 3:32 pm)epronovost Wrote: Most of those who are captured in Syria will probably dissappear in the black hole of the Assad regime prisons never to be heard off again. Once Assad is fully back on his throne, there will probably be a purge of those foreign nationals. They will have no trial and will simply be executed with more or less discretion. If there are still foreigners amongst the Kurdes, they will probably face the same fate as it would surprising for Assad not to touch the rebels of the Federation of Northern Syria once ISIS is declared dead in the region. My only question is will Assad kill the children too? A lot of the women who joined ISIS got married and started to have children. If I'm not mistaken, Hoda Muthana also has a child born under the ISIS flag. Considering the fact that the Syrian regime before the war wasn't exactly opposed to the idea of executing children, I doubt the probably harsher version of it that will take command of the country will let them live in orphanage they can't and don't want to build.
It sounds pretty heartless, but her child isn't our problem. The child is a Syrian citizen. Hoda Muthana had already forfeited any claim that she had to US citizenship before the child was born. We have no obligation toward that child.
However, for the sake of the child's relatives in America, I don't see any reason that one of them should not be permitted to travel to Syria, take custody of the child, and bring it to the US. Or perhaps the relatives would only have to go to Turkey, if the Syrians can arrange for the child to be transported there. Hoda Muthana might not be willing to give up her child like that. If she won't give the child up, then she's entirely responsible for what becomes of the child in Syrian hands.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
