It is difficult to get used to it, that Partner should be made with the infamous threats to heel. When US President Donald Trump calling on the Europeans in Syria prisoner IS fighters “take back” because he’ll let this otherwise free, this is such a vile threat – pronounced on Twitter. It is also therefore a lie, because Trump’s next Tweet says that this would more than return 800 extremists anyway to Europe. The message: We have struggled long enough against “your terrorists”. Now it’s your turn.

in view of the many attacks, in which not only Europeans had to suffer, is trying to indignant to exclaim. Because of the fact that it is in Syria was possible at all to build an Islamist terrorist Paradise, has to do significantly with the US-led war in Iraq in 2003 and ensuing power vacuum in the Region.

diplomacy has nothing to do

But outrage helps rarely, especially if she feeds off the rhetoric of the US President. Of course: The way the claim was raised, is counter-productive, with diplomacy such night Tweets have nothing to do. There are other channels.

But it shakes off the outrage, it is clear that it will come out exactly the way. Many in Syria’s prisoners of German, British or French citizen will be made at the end of in their home countries before a court. Because States are responsible for their citizens, whether they are “Holy” or “terrorists”, as green says foreign politician Omid Nouripour aptly. Germany is therefore criminal to be deported due to become foreigners in their home countries. And that’s why the USA have been criticised for the fact that they built after 9/11, the prison camp Guantanamo on Cuba.

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What is surprising, however, is the statement of the foreign office, you have no own knowledge about German citizens in Syrian prisons. Only in the past year, as the then Minister of defence, James Mattis raised the US demand, were also discussed German security experts in Brussels on this issue. There was talk of just under 100 former IS-followers and children out of Germany. The Problem is since then not vanished into thin air. And therefore the same applies here: outrage does not help in dealing with Trump. And feigned or actual cluelessness.