I've gotten into countless screaming matches online with the people who supported the absolute bullshit about the Shamima Begum case, the "ISIS bride" who left the UK and joined up with ISIS before the UK stripped her of her citizenship.

At no point did I ever convince a single person who supported the UK government's actions on the basis of:

• Upholding international law that the UK is a signatory to

• The fact that UK citizens are the UK's responsibility and that they need to deal with them rather than exporting their problems to developing countries

• That a country should not be able to take punitive actions against a citizen by decree without there being a fair judicial process where the accused has an opportunity to defend themselves against the charges and to be evaluated for stuff like their competence because this sets a dangerous precedent for anyone who cares about civil liberties

• That Shamima Begum was literally a child who was groomed online and that she should be given leniency based on the fact that she was a stupid kid who made stupid choices

• That the best way to make lifelong supporters of ISIS is to strip people of citizenship and mark them as international terrorists (despite there being no charges laid against Shamima in a court of law) so that they become completely dependent upon ISIS and have zero way to reintegrate into society because now they literally cannot enter any country ever again, so this act is one of the most supportive of ISIS and anyone who supports this act is directly aiding and abetting ISIS by creating the political consensus to make it a reality in the first place

• That the second best way to make lifelong supporters of ISIS is to provide them with a person who is basically guaranteed to become their broodmare for the next 30 odd years

This was before it came out that she was smuggled to Syria by a Canadian intelligence agent btw.

The most fucked thing that they have been left with is the ISIS prisoners

We're not talking hypotheticals here either.

This is yet-another example of actions by the US that just so happen to support ISIS. Between reports of the US military arming and training groups flying the SDF flag only to discover them a short time later fighting for ISIS and shifty things to do with abandoning weapons caches and funding sources in gulf states it's enough to make me wonder if the US actually opposes ISIS or if it's another Gladio type situation.