China's failure to secure a strong domestic supply of its own combined with its quasi-capitalist economic upsurge makes it public enemy number one as far as the US is concerned. China remains strongly xenophobic and is bristling with apprehension at the unrest it sees on its western perimeters.
US strategy will be to use the K'stan nations, as you call them, for one purpose. This area will be the recipient of a massive flux of refugees from the on-going engagements that the US will have with the Middle East. While upper echelon members of the pentagon and the administration's inner circle may know little of the regional subtexts and history, they do know that the West will never win the hearts and minds of the East. We did learn at least that much from Vietnam.
With this reality, our petroleum interests in the Mid East will remain forever precarious ones. The solution will be to persue an ever more scorched earth policy in our Mid East "liberation" efforts and creating a massive outflux of displaced population from the area while stopping short of genocide.
Those remaining in their homelands will be the ones most amenable to "democracy," if you will. Their former countrymen turned refugees will completely destabilize the "K'stan" area with their influx. China will look most unkindly on this upheaval on its borders and will have little hesitation or remorse in resolving the problem in the most expedient manner.
We will have accomplished the American occupation of the oil producing nations and given our enemy something to occupy itself with, as it drains its military and economic strength with the expenditure of the energy required to enforce the safety of its western provinces. The resulting slaughter of innocents will make the US look like the good guy by comparison, and Jeb Bush will jubiliantly be inaugurated into his third term at the White House.
The above scenario was described to me by a retired Lt. Colonel who was a professor of Russian studies at the US Air Force Academy. He was half joking when he told it, but by the end of his narration, he got a serious look on his face and said, "Hell, I think they'll actually do it."
Last edited by marichiko; 07-20-2005 at 08:56 PM.
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