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To: Caipirabob

This group has already killed innocent people in Yunnan via bus bombings. I say “go China, kill Islamofascists.”


3 posted on 08/04/2008 2:22:30 AM PDT by compound w
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To: compound w
I agree. If the Chinese get sick enough of this stuff, they will express less disdain for the United States in our war against terror. They will not openly back us, but they will be a quieter voice in opposition to us.

The Chinese have a position that what happens on their territory is just none of anyone else's business. A position that is at least half correct in my view, even though we know that Beijing is repressive and abusive toward many of their own who express dissent or want to worship freely.

Knowing full-well what kind of government they have — tyrannical against many of their own peaceful people aspiring to liberty in several areas, I am half sympathetic to their “Butt-out of our business” stance.

My reasoning? Because I see as one of the greatest dangers to liberty in the United States, an exponential increase in the “butting-in” to our business by the UNO, the World Court, and other destructive internationalist organizations and agencies.

I will quietly root for the Chincoms in their fight against Islamic extremists (and their are plenty of them) in their central and western regions.

7 posted on 08/04/2008 3:06:44 AM PDT by John Leland 1789
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To: compound w
This group has already killed innocent people in Yunnan via bus bombings. I say “go China, kill Islamofascists.”

Given that the Chinese government routinely kills innocent Uighurs, I would call that reciprocity. Until I hear about these people forcing Uighur women to wear the veil, or Uighur men to grow their beards long, I can't really see how they're anything like the Taliban. Bottom line is that they're hitching their wagon to anyone who will support them - and that list is growing shorter every day, because of growing Chinese geopolitical heft. The sad reality is that the Turks of Central Asia (and what is now China's north west) have never been united throughout history, and are cowering* yet again in the face of the Chinese threat.

* Some time back, John Derbyshire cited an interesting item about the Kazakh leader's reaction to border talks with China. Upon his return, he moved his capital from Almaty - close to the Chinese border - all the way to Astana, smack in the center of the country.

11 posted on 08/04/2008 11:28:34 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
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