Overwhelmed By The Numbers, Gilles De Kerchove Can Think Of Nothing But "Prioritizing" Cases To Prosecute

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Gilles De Kerchove seems to think that the governments of Western Europe are obligated to admit back into their midst those who have gone to fight, or otherwise help, the Islamic State. He can’t even consider, can’t even raise as a matter for general discussion, the members of the EU deciding not to re-admit any such people, at the very least, and possibly to strip them, and all supporters of the Islamic State who may never have left Europe, of their citizenship.

It’s a failure of imagination, a failure of intelligence, a failure of nerve. He seems to think some things are simply “unthinkable.” They are not. They are perfectly rational and, if presented correctly, will be acceptable to most people.