Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
A lot of them are apparently fleeing from potential army service or from getting recruited by terrorist organizations, what should they do? Stay there and join the terrorists because they have to fight anyway?

On the one hand we claim they're all way too violent for our culture and then we suggest to turn the peaceful ones into killers?
Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
Look after the women and children as though they are natives. Train the men as an army, under European officers, to fight ISIS. If we can't trust them with heavy weapons, then train them as light infantry with European forces providing heavy lifting. Those who aren't suitable for fighting as front line infantry can work in the logistical tail instead. Those who won't work towards this should be interned until such a time as they can be deported back to Syria. Those who distinguish themselves can be offered EU citizenship, distributed between the EU countries.
Modern armies have long tails, along the ratio of 9 in the rear to 1 at the front (from what I can remember of WWII numbers). If they're unwilling to be killers in the service of the EU, there is that route, although I'd disqualify them from any chance of qualifying for EU citizenship. That is still working towards their own liberation, within an EU project. If they're unwilling to do even that, then why should we provide them with any succour? As seen in the current situation, if EU countries lack teeth, there is no incentive to do what they request. People who have no permission to be here, and where we don't have a stable state to deal with, will do whatever they want.