The situation in Syria, since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, has grown more unsettled by the day. Syria's provisional government is led by a former al-Qaeda terrorist, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, and there are ongoing acts of vicious suppression of not only the Alawite minority, of which former President al-Assed was a member but also Syria's few remaining Christians.
Now, according to a piece published Wednesday in the UK's Sky News by correspondent Alex Crawford, there's another problem in Syria, and the new government in that country, being led by people with affiliations to terror groups, may make things worse.
The problem? Camps full of the family members of ISIS terrorists - mostly children. For now, at least, the camps are being guarded by Kurdish forces, not by the Syrian government directly.
The Kurdish armoured vehicle we're in is being peppered by stones and rocks. But this a good day.
The soldiers we're with face far worse. Knifings and bombings feature regularly from the ISIS families detained in sprawling detention camps in northeast Syria.
The Kurdish troops have guarded these camps packed with ISIS wives and relatives for more than six years.
But since the toppling of the Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad, attacks in and around the camps have more than doubled.
Kane Ahmed, the commander of Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) troops for al Hol camp, told us: "The threat of ISIS has increased both inside and outside the camp... especially after the fall of the Syrian regime, it's gone up a lot and we see attempts by them to escape on almost a daily basis."
Having even the family members of ISIS goblins wandering around loose, even in Syria, is a dangerous problem. Why? Because, evidence shows these people, even the children, are deeply indoctrinated. Maybe especially the children. These kids have been absorbing fanaticism and hatred from birth, and the results, in these camps, are horrifyingly apparent. As Alex Crawford reports:
The camp managers have long warned about the lack of rehabilitation facilities and psychological help for these children to de-radicalise the young.
More than 60% of those at al Hol are children - 22,000 of them. Many have been born here and know nothing beyond their caged existence.
They distrust outsiders and throw stones at the troops and us from afar, as well as try to kick our cameras.
We're given armed soldiers who escort us round the camp, and we're told to don protective vests and helmets.
"You will be attacked," the camp management tell us. Raids on the tents frequently turn up homemade bombs, guns, grenades and knives.
These are children. Children. What's to be done with them? Can they be rehabilitated? Anything inculcated in children this young, no matter how vile, may never be completely deprogrammed. And the behavior of these kids is telling:
The troops wave their guns at the hordes of children who immediately gather round us as they taunt their guards.
"We will behead you," they say. "One day we will be in charge. ISIS is coming back."
One burqa-clad woman at the camp tells us: "We love the Islamic State. We were free with them. Here we are captives."
A child is threatening to behead a camp guard - and would just as quickly, given the opportunity, have attacked the reporter. It's hard for us to understand this.
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This entire situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, this rise of radical Islamic terror, has borne a lot of bitter fruit, but this is especially disturbing. These children have soaked up hate with their mother's milk; they are deeply programmed, from the very beginning, and there just simply may be no redeeming them. What's to be done with them? With these kids, who may never be able to mix peaceably in a modern society? Can we leave them in these camps forever?
There may be no good alternative.
In the civilized world, the world these ISIS family members - even the children - are not a part of, we are considerate and protective of children. We prize them for their innocence, and we protect them from the world's evil. But these children are steeped in evil. It's incomprehensible to us because it's anathema to everything we are raised to believe, and it should be incomprehensible; to paraphrase the late Paul Harvey, "If you could comprehend it, we'd have to worry about you."
Some problems have no solutions. These children, sad as the notion is to us, may well spend their lives behind barbed wire unless they are among those smuggled out by terrorists to commit more evil in the world, evil they were raised from birth to carry out. That may be the only alternative these children have.
Here in the Western world, we try to shelter children from the sins of their elders, but these children are the sins of their elders. It's a sad and terrible state of affairs.