The problem is - again - that I am not advocating appeasement of the Radical Muslims, surrender to the Radical Muslims, or anything like it.
Oh I get that, no worries on that part. I just wished to illustrate that you can't really compare one to the other and use that as a yard stick for threat credibility is all.
Since I promised earlier that I would get to these once I was at work...
2. To equate the Uyghur-Chinese conflict [does he realize the PRC are engaged in a genocide of the Uyghurs? That the PRC are monsters who steal the kidneys of political dissidents for re-sale?] with the struggle of the Islamic fascists with the West is [another] moral failure of Whittle's.
3. Whittle equates ALL Chechen fighters with Radical Islam. General Dudaev would have probably disagreed.
The first one, honestly, I'm not gonna touch with a ten foot pole. I just don't know enough about that situation to form what I would consider an educated and credible opinion as an intel weenie. (Damn, how often do you hear someone admit to ignorance of a subject on the intertoobs?
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The second one however... Well General Dudeyev may have disagreed... during the First Chechen War. However he has been dead for the past 14 years and subsequently has had zero involvement in the Second and ongoing Chechen War which has notably included foreign Islamist Wahhabism element as a fourth and distinct involved belligerant, with it's own political and social end goals, in addition to the Russian Federation, Republic of Ichkeria and a loose group of local militants lead by Umarov and Yevloyev.
