Bombs go off in Manchester.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

(05-24-2017, 03:09 PM)Au165 Wrote: If he knew going there would disallow him form returning do you think he would have gone? If he was smart enough to pull of the attack he is probably smart enough to know that traveling there would end his objective. As I said, the ban in this case does nothing. Telling someone they can't come back if they go somewhere merely makes them go somewhere else, it doesn't make them give up on doing something bad.

Speculation is just that, speculation. 

You say the travel ban wouldn't have helped since he's already in Great Britain and could still have committed this act of terrorism.

I say that by him going to Syria, it emboldened him, gave him ideas and the plan. If the travel ban was in place, he would have had to get the plans, ideas or whatever in a different way which could have gotten him caught before he could act. Or, by going and getting stuck in Syria, he would eventually be killed fighting.

Or...he may have changed his mind

Or...he could have accidentally talked with someone who changed his mind

Or...postponed the terrorist attack and wised up

Or...

Or...

Or...

Speculation

But, no amount of speculation will change minds especially in the days of "I'm right, you're wrong".

That's directed at everyone, myself included.