Estranging friends and relying on enemies

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Feb 2, 2007 at 13:30

Dear L. McCarten , you wrote : :

> It is a certainty that both countries have made common cause with Islam's global jihad and its attacks on the western democracies.

Why are you surprised ? It is the US that has encroached upon the Caucaus region and Central Asia establishing military bases and sending military missions and claiming paramount interests there . Should Russia be grateful to the US for that ?

> What is not nearly as certain is that the western democracies are up to the battle of saving themselves from this two-pronged menace of Islam and power-hungry Communist-bloc states. Europeans had better take note : if the US is incapacitated or worse by Chinese and/or Russian and/or client-state satellite-based attacks, it will be manifestly unable to intervene in attacks in and on Europe by Islamic or Communist-bloc led attacks (both of which share the desire to see democracy eliminated).

I would rather suggest that instead of farther estranging , antagonizing and stygmatizing Russia and China which are natural allies and friends in the war on Islam ( not just some amorphous terror as it is officially phrased by the US dignitaries) Washington should do some radical concessions to these two states to acquire their good will. The Russians have enough problems with the Chechens and the Chinese have their Eastern Turkestan. Leave Gerogia and central Asia again to Russia and the Russians will chnage their behaviour. Also the Chinese might be worth some concessions.

But in view of how the US conducts its present self-defeating policy it will face sooner or later a huge coalition of Islam , Russia , China and perhaps also India. It is unable - as I think- to defeat a single member of this formidable coalition , so how can it ever hope to defeat all of them united against itself ? Who will help the US then ? Perhaps the grateful Moslems , first and foremost with the faithful Saudis who will never forget the US the exploit of creating two new Islamic semi-states in Europe , namely Bosnia and Kosovo ?

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