Shamima Begum was fighting against our declared enemy. He should not have been our declared enemy. But he was, and even though he has won, he still is.
Both morally and, as it turned out, militarily, we backed the wrong side in Syria. Arguably, we were wrong on both counts to have backed any side there. But we did. And officially, we still do.
We proscribed IS in Britain, but we backed it against Assad. Then we swapped sides on the other side of the essentially fictitious Sykes-Picot line, bombing IS in Iraq.
Officially, that is still our position. Britain wanted, and wants, IS to win in Syria. Just not in Iraq. And Shamima Begum went to fight for it Syria. We have only successive British Governments to blame.
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