Quora Answer: Did the UK Fail Groomed Islamic State Bride, Shamima Begum?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “Did the UK fail groomed Islamic State bride, Shamima Begum?”

We can argue that the UK government has failed a great many people.  It has failed the working poor, the homeless, the chronically ill, the middle class, minorities and so many sections of society.  How many of them decided to run to another country to wage war there, to support their war effort, to terrorise the vulnerable there, to fit suicide vests on sometimes unwilling people?

Shamima Begum has done terrible things, and she has no excuse.  She cannot claim society failed her when she willingly dove into the fire, and dragged others in.  Instead of entertaining her nonsense, she should be tried and executed.