What's this? A cunning plan?
Take over Hong Kong while Beijing is distracted with the Bo Xilai murder incident? Surely they won't miss it until we've got it all under our firm control.
But wait, I have an even MORE cunning plan:
Let the Chinese Communist Party erupt into internecine warfare as once-thinly-veiled antagonists capitalize on the swirling eddies of tension brought to the surface by the Bo Xilai murder mystery, and make bold strokes of their own.
Then, while the Big Boy on the Asian continent who holds Iran's leash isn't paying attention, let Iran put the nuclear squeeze play on Israel.
Simultaneously maintain pressure on a destabilized Turkey, and Egypt — both grappling in differing ways with internal factions — to move these nations headlong into the Abyss of hard-line, radical Islamism.
Keep Europe economically hamstrung with no taste for war, not even in defense of democracy next door, and lacking in both the will and funds necessary to effectively project restraining power into the Middle East, so their diplomatic efforts remain utterly castrated. Use green theology, Ecstasy, and the club scene to distract the young with superficial, meaningless pursuits.
Keep the United States mired in the doldrums of pathetic economic performance, stinging from self-imposed limits to its effectiveness in Iraq and Afghanistan; its forces increasingly frustrated with the panty-waisted cluster f__k that materializes when politicians 7,500 miles away try to win a war without actually killing anybody; its clinically depressed American public absorbed with — by turns — Dancing With The Stars and a Presidential Election cycle wherein they face the unpalatable proposition of selecting their next national leader from a menu of choices featuring "Left" and "Lefter"; its military postured to retreat from installations around the globe that once served as regional platforms for the projection of American military might that effectively gave the velvet glove of American diplomacy a fist of iron.
In sum, put the significant powers of the Earth into a retreat from both their willingness and ability to either restrain or combat evil in any degree, in any quarter of the globe where it may arise. Leave the field of battle altogether, and allow the Islamists and Russians to have their way with the Earth.
Pop the popcorn.
Exit Light.
Enter Night.
Your sole mission: SURVIVE until dawn. If there is one.
WELL PUT.
VERY WELL PUT.
THX