If and when ISIS is run out of both Syria & Iraq, where are those 30,000 people going to wind up?

Not too many have enlisted. The Nat’l Counterterrorism Center estimates about 100. There is debate on the accuracy of that number; but it isn’t in the thousands, nowhere near the number of British subjects that have gone to Syria or Iraq.

Go Eastward! No, further. A little more. More. Further- Bingo.

I don’t know that they could be driven out of Syria. Currently, the only people who fight them on the ground are Iraqi Security Forces (i.e., the Iraqi army), Shi’ite militias which are trained and often lead in combat by Iranian “volunteers” and Iraqi Kurds. Although they have gone into Syria after them on occasion, there has been no large scale efforts to destroy or force the withdrawal of ISIS anywhere other than in Iraq. This is a problem which is not going to go away on its own, and which would require major ground forces if one intended to actually destroy them.

What makes you think there’s going to be 30,000 left by then?

I’d say: Erie, Pennsylvania.