Huh!?!?!? You have no clue what you are talking about. General Sondhi has been the one wanting to get tougher on the Muslims in the South but he has been restrained by the central government led by the former PM. Now that the gloves are off, things are going to change. There have been NO attacks in the south since the coup and that is not by chance. They know if they try anything now they will be delt with very swiftly. No more playing games.
The situation is the exact opposite of what you are posting.
OK...........Fine....
Believe what you will. The consequences of this coup will be felt largely by the people of Thailand. As for the U.S., we will have one more country to aim our intel satellites at. One more country that distances it's self from the WOT and jumps the shark to the other side. A haven for the people we are trying to arrest and take off the playing table of terror.
If you cannot see this aspect coming, then you deserve to have it.
Ignorance is bliss .....Always has been.
The future has changed for the Thai's, and you can't convince me that this coup is a good idea. It is a rejection of democracy and the beginning of a dangerous period of time for Thailand, and not a return to the good ole days.....
Did it ever occur to you two Islamic witch-hunters that a moderate Muslim JUST MIGHT be first in line to express a VERY DIM VIEW of Islamic fundamentalist terrorism?
We, in the West, have wondered aloud for 5 years, "Where is the voice of the Muslim moderate?" The answer has been that they are almost all scared into silence by the presence of vehement radicals among them -- even in the heartland of the United States.
Now, in Thailand, in the person of General Sondhi, we see a moderate Muslim with a 99% Buddhist army behind him, who has the advacacy of the great perponderance of the people and his King, who has little to fear, the name of his God to redeem, the reputation of his fellow religionists to clear, and the militray power to shoot off more than his mouth.
Here, at long last, is perhaps THE ONE moderate Muslim in all the Earth who can stand up, tell the Islamofascist radicals to stuff it or else and make the threat stick; utlizing the military powers under his command to provide as many poignant examples of "or else" as may become necessary. He is in THE PRIME position to tell Muslim extremists exactly where they WILL go, exactly how they WILL go there, and exactly when they WILL go.
On the face of it, I must admit that this didn't look good, but seeing the religious blend of the country over which this General has EARNED (not TAKEN) control, and seeing as this is the culmination of his long and venerable personal history in Thailand, I'm FAR more inclined to believe that his future talks with Muslim agitators in the South will be markedly one-sided and that much of the content will begin with phrases like "You will...", and "You will not..."
With all of that clearly in view, postings continually reemphasizing "But he's MUSLIM!" devolve, in every aspect, to the level of leftist Americans crying "Halliburton!"