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本帖最后由 vivicat 于 2009-7-17 22:21 编辑
Al-Qaeda and Red China square up for war: if only they both could lose
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100003315/al-qaeda-and-red-china-square-up-for-war-if-only-they-both-could-lose/
By Gerald Warner World Last updated: July 15th, 2009
Normally, it is one of the great frustrations of life that the most unpleasant and aggressive people one knows seldom attack one another, but separately target their chosen victims. This situation arises in social, business or political arenas: there seems to be a bat-like radar that enables bullies to avoid colliding.
Yet sometimes - just occasionally - this disappointing natural law is suspended and big beasts that are the enemies of civilisation lock horns in mortal combat. The most obvious example is the titanic conflict caused by Hitler’s invasion of Russia. Overnight, the former allies who had jointly invaded Poland (the fact that the Soviet Union invaded Poland as well as Nazi Germany is usually conveniently overlooked) became deadly enemies and the two obscene totalitarian dictatorships began to devastate each other.
Of course, the propagandist sentimentality about “Uncle Joe” Stalin and the Great Patriotic War was used by fellow travellers to sanitise the Soviet Union; but in the Hitler/Stalin fight there was no good guy. Now, today, there are the first embryonic signs of two of the nastiest entities polluting the planet preparing to square up to each other. Red China, the rapist of Tibet and mass murderer of Tiananmen Square, is being threatened with jihad by al-Qaeda because of its killing of Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang province.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate how alarming this is for the Beijing genocides. Their complex interests in Africa, notably in Algeria and the Sudan, depend on an undisturbed colonial/commercial initiative. The Chinese presence in Yemen, one of Osama bin Laden’s countries of origin, could similarly be compromised. That is why the normally arrogant and intransigent Chinese Foreign Ministry has taken the unusual and humiliating step of pleading for understanding from “our Muslim brothers”.
But the al-Qaeda satellite organisation al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has vowed vengeance for Uighir deaths. This is no idle threat. Three weeks ago AQIM killed 24 guards protecting a Chinese construction project in Algeria. The al-Qaeda network is so loose-knit, with no direct command structure running directly to the top, that Beijing does not even have the option of negotiating a deal with the leadership. Until now, Red China has led a charmed existence on the international stage.
The last remaining communist superpower has simply bought America: it owns the United States through massive purchase of US government bonds. It ran the Olympics with a steely oversight, refusing all compromise with the West, yet still managed to get a good press from the sycophantic Western media. Nobody has ever stood up to Beijing. When it overran Tibet it was taking on a Buddhist country - and who ever heard of a Buddhist jihad?
This time, however, it has caught a tiger. This confrontation could, at one extreme, simply peter out; or, at the other, it could lead to the Islamic radicalisation of 10 million Uighirs and serious, militant separatism within the ramshackle Chinese empire. Beijing could also be relied on to counter-attack jihadists with exemplary ferocity. Beijing and al-Qaeda thoroughly deserve each other. It is gratifying to contemplate two of the most evil forces on earth embarking on a war of attrition. If only they could both lose.
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