How to Deal With U.S. Citizens Who Become Radical Islamic Terrorists

It is inscrutable to all rational thinkers that our elected officials are pathologically incapable of addressing the chronic issue of U.S. citizens traveling to the Middle East, fighting with radical Islamic terrorists against the U.S. and then returning to this country to perpetrate death and destruction across the Nation.  The solution is painfully simple — and effective — and applies equally to local self-radicalized Islamic terrorists who spread death and terror across this country.

The United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 23 states "whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death."  This is precisely the sort of issue that firing squads are so perfectly designed to deal with and in a fashion that dramatically reduces recidivism.  How difficult can it be!

POSTSCRIPT:  Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 people and injured more than 30 others at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009.  Today Hasan is alive and well and living off the U.S. taxpayer.  On August 28, 2014, his attorney announced that Hasan had written a letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — head of the notorious Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has proclaimed a caliphate in Iraq and Syria and has been designated a terrorist organization by the US, UN, and many Western countries.  In the letter, Hasan requests to be made a citizen of the Islamic State and included his signature and the abbreviation SoA (Soldier of Allah).  And this is justice in the U.S. today?