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At a hearing before the SFRC, he said the SDF spends quite a bit of time, effort, and resources taking care of everybody else's problems by holding more than 2,000 foreign terrorist fighters from over 50 countries, and the U.S. is pushing those countries to take back their citizens as "it is their responsibility."<ref name="auto4" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Browne|first1=Ryan|last2=Shortell|first2=David|date=July 18, 2019|title=First on CNN: US transports alleged American ISIS fighter back from Syria to face trial|website=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/us-transports-isis-suspect/index.html}}</ref> He continued that the families of ISIS fighters that have moved into internally displaced person (IDP) camps will be the next generation of ISIS or "ISIS 2.0" if the international community does not develop a plan to rehabilitate and provide them with a future.<ref name="auto1" />
At a hearing before the SFRC, he said the SDF spends quite a bit of time, effort, and resources taking care of everybody else's problems by holding more than 2,000 foreign terrorist fighters from over 50 countries, and the U.S. is pushing those countries to take back their citizens as "it is their responsibility."<ref name="auto4" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Browne|first1=Ryan|last2=Shortell|first2=David|date=July 18, 2019|title=First on CNN: US transports alleged American ISIS fighter back from Syria to face trial|website=CNN|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/us-transports-isis-suspect/index.html}}</ref> He continued that the families of ISIS fighters that have moved into internally displaced person (IDP) camps will be the next generation of ISIS or "ISIS 2.0" if the international community does not develop a plan to rehabilitate and provide them with a future.<ref name="auto1" />
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Mulroy said the SDF bore most of the burden when it came to defeating a caliphate. He went on to say that the DoD could not carry out the NDS without partners like the SDF.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/us-warned-turkey-only-last-week-that-attacking-kurds-helps-isis |title=US warned Turkey only last week that attacking Kurds helps ISIS |date=October 7, 2019 |website=Washington Examiner}}</ref> On the large IDP camp at al-Hawl, he explained that many of the children in the camps were only learning the beliefs of ISIS the entire time they are in that camp. If the international community does not come up with a way to rehabilitate them and reintegrate them into society, they are the next generation of ISIS.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/2/in-syrian-endgame-us-officials-see-challenge-from-/ |title=In Syrian endgame, U.S. officials see a challenge from ISIS, Bashar Assad |last=Meier |first=Lauren |website=The Washington Times}}</ref>
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