It’s so hard to know which side to root for here . . .
Terrorist target everyday people, likely much like you, me or your neighbor. In China, it is likely most of the bus passengers would be apolitical, just trying to get along and stay out of trouble. They supported the democracy protesters but not to the point of taking to the street. Some of them are members of underground Christian Churches or sympathetic to Falun Gong.
If they assassinate the party elite, OK but the track record of Muslim terrorists is train bombs, bus bombs and murder at the World Trade Center. Easy for me to pick sides.
In the unforgettable words of Winston Churchill, “if Hitler invaded hell, I would help the devil.”
I would not be too eager to wish China bad things, they are an influential country in that region and if terrorists make a government like that fall or bend over, we’ll have another Spain in our hands. I don’t see the Chinese back down, they will take action with full force and throw more soldiers at the terrorists then they can wave a detonator at.
That being said, if China is attached and Obama wins,woe are us, finally we might get a hard hitting ally in the war on terror and we’ll have a president who wont even swat a fly. If McCain wins, it’s lights out for the terrorists if Chine get’s in. I might be wrong, but I’m sure my conservative friends wont post a million bad words (Read the Profanity article).