Isn’t it great to be young, and have pretty much your entire life stretching way out in front of you like a road never travelled.
Also, if I were the lawyer acting for Dakhlalla, I’d be very tempted to go into a Richard Pryor routine in seeking understanding if not mercy for my client: 'Lookit her, your Honor - it’s like meth plus crank plus crack plus I dunno what, but regardless, you KNOW he’s out. of. his. pathetic. little. male. MIND!’
I can’t get my head around the self delusion one must be under to see life in the Islamic State as a good thing.
Then again, I can get my head around the self delusion one must be under to see a Donald Trump Presidency as a good thing.
I must not have any imagination.
Particularly when they both seem to have come from stable backgrounds, access to college educations, etc.
Guess the mandatory mental health treatment explains a bit of it…
Or your imagination is constrained by a sense of decency, something neither Trump nor the leaders of ISIS, nor any other sociopath, is constrained by. That’s just how it is.
But yeah, it’s pretty much unfathomable to me as well.