I'm not sure how you would stop ISIS inspired volunteers. It is sort of like trying to stop single terrorists who strike alone in countries from outside the ISIS network. How do you know what people are thinking and which are going to volunteer as ISIS soldiers? It isn't something that can be easily predicted. The profile would be: 'What Sunni Muslim in a Western Country wants to commit suicide while dying for a cause they believe in while Raping women who are sold as slaves to them or given to them by ISIS?" This would be the profile to look for. So, mostly people like this are addled or drug addicted in the first place and in some kind of suicidal or psychotic place to begin with. However, for every one that goes 100 or 1000 other Sunni Men might also meet this profile worldwide. So, how does one know which ones are going to try to go to join ISIS? It is not possible to know at present. And even if it was what if you were wrong? Like the Muslim boy who took a clock to school he built and arrested for bringing a bomb to school? Being wrong is much worse than being right because it harms Muslims all over the world each time we are wrong.
Another factor is that it is true that if U.S. Soldiers on the ground began to fight ISIS, the number of ISIS volunteers likely would jump about 10 times. ISIS more than anything wants to fight the U.S. Army. So, we shouldn't give them what they want. Ever.
In fact, this more than anything is going to cause the robotization of the entire U.S. military. In fact, already, 90% of pilots in the military now now flying drones with hellfire missiles from bases in the U.S. remote control all over the world.
Also, drones with Hellfire missiles operate autonomously when they lose radio contact and might even be able to fire missiles autonomously too. So, a drone can take off or land without the human aid of a remote pilot. They might also be allowed to fire missiles without a pilot here in the U.S. on the ground too anywhere on earth.
Also, more and more U.S. military planes can be flown remotely too every day without a pilot on board as a result of drone technology developing so quickly.
And the desire of ISIS wanting desperately to die fighting a U.S. Army is driving the opposite happening. So, it is now much more likely for ISIS personnel to be killed by robot drones flown by pilots remotely from the U.S. than in any other way.
Congressional report: U.S. has 'failed' to stop flow of foreign fighters to ISIS
Story highlights
- More than 25,000 foreigners have flocked to war-torn Syria and Iraq since 2011 to fight with Islamist terrorist groups
- The task force, commissioned by the House Homeland Security Committee, called for an overhaul of the U.S. strategy
Washington (CNN)The
U.S. is losing the battle to stop Americans from traveling abroad to
enlist in ISIS, a bipartisan congressional task force concluded in a
report released Tuesday.
The
determination came out at the same time that President Barack Obama was
chairing a U.N. summit on countering violent extremism, in which he
stressed America's successes in combating ISIS even as he acknowledged
that more needed to be done on this "very difficult challenge."
More
than 25,000 foreigners have flocked to war-torn Syria and Iraq since
2011 to fight with Islamist terrorist groups including ISIS, according
to U.S. government estimates noted in the report.
"Despite
concerted efforts to stem the flow, we have largely failed to stop
Americans from traveling overseas to join jihadists," the task force
determined in its report.
In
just the last nine months, more than 7,000 foreign fighters have
swelled the ranks of those radical militant groups waging war and
committing atrocities in Iraq and Syria. And while most recruits
continue to come from the Middle East and North Africa, thousands of
Westerners have traveled to fight in the region -- including more than
250 Americans, more than half of which have left in the last year.
Those
figures prompted the eight-member task force, commissioned by the House
Homeland Security Committee and including three House Democrats, to
call for an overhaul of the U.S. strategy to stem the flow and threat of foreign fighters in what the task force called "the largest global convergence of jihadists in history."
"We
have to have a strategy to deal with this: both a military strategy
abroad, a political solution, but also a prevention strategy here in the
United States to prevent this threat," Homeland Security Committee
Chairman Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, said at a press conference
announcing the reports conclusions Tuesday.
Meanwhile,
at the U.N. summit on how to counter ISIS and the threat of extremism
worldwide, Obama touted the work of the U.S.-led coalition in making
gains against ISIS as well as the work of countries to strengthen laws
"to disrupt the flow of foreign terrorist fighters."
56 photos: The ISIS terror threat
"We
share more information and we are strengthening border controls. We've
prevented would-be fighters from reaching the battlefields and returning
to threaten our countries. But this remains a very difficult challenge
and today we are going to focus how we can do more together," Obama said
Tuesday.
And while Russia and Iran did
not attend the forum, Obama reiterated at the meeting that "we are
prepared to work with all countries, including Russia and Iran, to find a
political mechanism" to transition Syrian President Bashar al-Assad out
of power.
Federal officials, for their
part, have ramped up their efforts to stop and arrest individuals
inspired by ISIS to either travel to Syria and Iraq or carry out attacks
on U.S. soil, but gaps still remain. Of the more than 250 American who
sought to travel to Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials caught just 28 before
they could make it to the region, according to the task force's report.
The
task force also estimated that women account for more than 30 of the
250-plus Americans who have traveled to join extremist groups in Iraq
and Syria.
Texas Republican Rep. Will
Hurd, who worked for nine years as an undercover CIA agent, said that
while coordination between agencies fighting to prevent attacks on U.S.
soil still needs work, he said he's noticed improvements.
"One
of the good things is information sharing has improved since I joined
the CIA back in 2000, but there's still a lot more work to be done,"
Hurd said Tuesday.
The group also
pointed to gaps in international intelligence sharing efforts, noting
that "there is currently no comprehensive global database of foreign
fighter names."
"Instead,
countries including the United States rely on a patchwork system for
swapping individual extremist identities," the report found, calling
that system "an inherently weak arrangement that increases the odds a
foreign fighter will be able to cross border(s) undetected when
traveling to and from a terrorist sanctuary."
The
fighters pose "a triple threat," the group wrote in a summary of its
findings: "they strengthen terrorist groups, incite others back home to
conduct attacks, and can return themselves to launch acts of terror."
The
flow of foreign fighters is continuing to fuel the conflict in Iraq and
Syria, allowing groups like ISIS to replenish their ranks even as U.S.
officials assess more than 10,000 extremist fighters have been killed by
U.S.-led coalition airstrikes since that bombing campaign launched in
the summer 2014.
ISIS's force
currently consists of between 20,000 and 30,000 fighters according to
the latest CIA estimate -- mimicking the group's numbers in fall 2014.
Ranking
Member Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, called the threat of
foreign fighters "clear and alarming" and said the task force's report
would help focus attention on the foreign fighter issue.
"The
threat of a terrorist-trained extremist returning to the United States
from the battlefields in Iraq and Syria is serious, and we must do what
we can to prevent it," he said.
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