Peters: Letting Terrorist Back in the Street Is ‘Like Turning Loose a Rabid Dog in a Petting Zoo’

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PETERS: "Rehab may occasionally work for drug addicts, it doesn’t work for hardened terrorists. Now there are two kinds we have to deal with; those who're fighting on foreign battlefields. When you get a terrorist, an Islamist terrorist or any other kind, you kill them on the battlefield before they have a chance to surrender, that is it. You want them dead. Now obviously within our country, when we have American citizens who are legal residents trying to go to join ISIS we can't just kill them, but putting in rehab, it really -- it just doesn’t work. The only thing that does work is when sometimes these fanatics or would be fanatics, see reason themselves. I mean, self-rehabilitation does work, people have come around. But our arguments, treating them nicely -- it doesn't work. Young Americans or residents here -- of our country need to know that if you try to join a terrorist organization, if you try to go to Iraq or Syria or Libya or anywhere else you are going to go to jail for a very, very long time. Punishment is underrated in our society. We want to treat everybody nice. We want to rehab them. Look, a rehab terrorist, from one of these institutions whether here or Saudi Arabia, letting them back in the street is like turning loose a rabid dog in a petting zoo. You don't do it. This is serious. Rehab doesn’t for terrorists."