Der syrische Bürgerkrieg habe eine Generation junger Männer hervorgebracht, deren einzige vorzeigbare Kompetenz das Kämpfen sei, schreibt Elizabeth Tsurkov in The New York Review. „These are often young men who were still in school when the fighting started, whose education was then disrupted by the war. In my conversations with them, some insist on using only voice messages and calls, as they struggle to write even in the simplified version of Arabic used in speech. My interviews with dozens of men who departed to Libya to fight alongside the two warring sides, or who were deployed or registered to deploy in Azerbaijan, show that their primary motivation for joining is monetary.“ Das ist eine schwere Hypothek für die kommenden Jahre, auch im Maghreb und auch hierzulande, falls solche jungen Männer nach Europa flüchten.