The U.S. government obtained intelligence on the possible location of American captives held by ISIS in Syria last year, but Obama administration officials waited nearly a month to launch a rescue mission because of concerns that the intelligence wasn’t conclusive and some of it had come from a foreign service, U.S. and British officials told The Daily Beast.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obama-passed ... orig=world
It may sounds horrible, but it would be best to keep your loved ones from going over there with ridiculous notions of saving the world. That would probably be the best plan.