Iraq just today sent their troops in the biggest offensive against ISIS in Mosul. Somalia and Sudan have been working extensively with the US on anti-terrorism efforts in their countries. Iran is backing 100K+ Sunnis who are fighting the largely Shiite ISIS.
And of course in Somalia and Yemen you are dealing with Al-Shabab who are unaffiliated with ISIS. Just like you have groups in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand who have their own Al-Qaeda offshoots.
What the US has stupidly done has been to tarnish those countries as state sponsors of terror when they have been working so hard to eliminate terorrism and really needed US and International support.
And no country right now including allies can adequately identify terrorists. Many terrorist acts have been committed by individuals without direct ties to ISIS or Al Qaeda i.e. rougue sympthasizers.
'No country right now including allies can adequately identify terrorists'. Correct and gets to the heart of the problem. In other words, people's intentions cannot be judged by the stance their government takes. In the absence of adequate identification, minimizing the chances of someone being maimed or killed is, for me at least, more important than the 'tarnishing' or not of a country. The question then comes down to estimates of the likelihood of this happening with incomers from country X bearing in mind that it's what is likely to happen in the future rather than in the past that counts. I have no data to hand on this so cannot comment. Maybe the estimate is very low in which case the anti-ban people are right. Otherwise?
Iraq just today sent their troops in the biggest offensive against ISIS in Mosul. Somalia and Sudan have been working extensively with the US on anti-terrorism efforts in their countries. Iran is backing 100K+ Sunnis who are fighting the largely Shiite ISIS.
And of course in Somalia and Yemen you are dealing with Al-Shabab who are unaffiliated with ISIS. Just like you have groups in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand who have their own Al-Qaeda offshoots.
What the US has stupidly done has been to tarnish those countries as state sponsors of terror when they have been working so hard to eliminate terorrism and really needed US and International support.
And no country right now including allies can adequately identify terrorists. Many terrorist acts have been committed by individuals without direct ties to ISIS or Al Qaeda i.e. rougue sympthasizers.