Let's meet the Uighurs, shall we. Nestled in western China, the Uighurs are Turkic peoples who have never been too comfortable under the yoke of Beijing. They also happen to be Islamic, and they have been committing acts of terror against their Chinese masters with increasing frequency.
When I was working on strategy for the Navy, we considered an alternative future in which the threat of Islamic terrorism brought the US, Russia, China, Europe and India closer together to fight a common foe. In this future, the Islamists overplay their hand and create this concert of power designed largely to dispatch this threat.
I don't think we're moving quite in this direction yet, but I continue to look for signs. I also look for some different methods of dealing from this problem from the Chinese, especially after the Olympics. One wonders if a Chinese judicial system would grant these terrorists the palate of rights that our Supreme Court has....
Post Olympics, the Chinese will round up the Uighurs and place them in camps in Tibet. They will then turn Tibet into an artillery practice range.
ReplyDeleteBeijing will then have solved 2 of their problems.
I note a grammatical error in this post:
ReplyDelete"In this future, the Islamists overplay their hand and create this concert of power designed largely to dispatch this threat."
Are we to believe that the Islamists will create this concert of power to dispatch themselves?
Don't know if it is a grammatical error...in that I am talking about a future using the future perfect (I believe) tense.
ReplyDeleteBy overplaying their hand, they "create" the concert of power that ultimately destroys them (by creating the conditions under which those nations find common cause).
Comprendez vous?