We need a long-term solution for captured ISIS members | By Marc Ginsberg for CNNOpinion
Marc Ginsberg was a former legislative assistant to Sen. Edward Kennedy, White House liaison for Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, deputy senior adviser to the President for Middle East Policy and former US ambassador to Morocco. He is currently senior diplomatic adviser to the Counter Extremism Project. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
The crumbled ISIS caliphate has bequeathed the world a terrible inheritance: Thousands of captured ISIS fighters and their families, many of whom remain dedicated to ISIS. And with the apparent re-emergence, via video, of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday encouraging what remains of ISIS to continue, radical detainees represent an even greater risk. The parched, forbidding sands of northeast Syria are home to detention camps, with one, al-Hol, holding more than 73,000 people, according to the Washington Post.
Former ISIS brides on life inside terrorist group 02:46Some might ask whether this solution is inhumane, especially when penal colonies have been known for human rights violations. But I would counter by asking if it is any worse than leaving these detainees in deplorable, dangerous conditions -- a clear and present danger to international security -- while the world dithers? Still, it will require a willingness to do it the right way.
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