Further Thoughts on the Uighurs
BY Herschel Smith14 years, 10 months ago
In Palau Taking the Uighurs for 200,000,000 Dollars, The Captain’s Journal noted the absurdity of spending this kind of money on a handful of Chinese Muslim terrorists. It amounted to the cost of more than 100,000 sets of body armor for our troops, and the Chinese are going to a tropical paradise on the Island of Palau. At any rate, we called them “terrorists.”
Joshua Foust took issue with this characterization, and sent a link to Obsidian Wings along (noting that it wasn’t my “cup of tea” – and he is certainly right), as well as a few other links. He asked if I had any more data on them to justify calling them terrorists?
I must confess that I know between little and nothing about them (although I do know that there is a budding Chinese Muslim insurgency in Western China). I have better things to do than spend my time studying this particular group. The choice of words was instantaneous (in a post that took five minutes to write) and not meant to convey a wealth of knowledge about the Uighurs. Michael Yon and I were also chatting about this, and Michael wondered if they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Perhaps so. But Michael and I certainly agree on one thing. Give them to me (Michael and I will have to fight over them). LT Nixon also wants them. Catch: we get the $200,000,000 too. So I’ve got to throw down with Michael and LT Nixon over the Uighurs. They are younger than me, but I have wisdom and treachery working on my side.
Keeping the Uighurs would actually be easy I think. I would just hire a few of the bad dudes I work out with (I still hurt from all of those inclined bench presses I did on Friday), and let them hang with me along with the bad dudes. We could chain ourselves together and make field trips to the grocery store and gym). I think $200,000,000 would handle the expenses. Oh, and picking up TVs and heaving them across the room would be off limits – and I would implement that rule by use of force if necessary. Neither would I allow discussions of Muslim separatist movements, and yes, I do consider that to be a bad policy, one that I would have a right to control.
Concerning the money the U.S. government paid to get this done, as LT Nixon said – “Uncle Sucker.”
Postscript: Based on where he is, you should expect interesting things coming from Michael Yon in the near future.
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