I have never been a bully. At school I was far too popular to see the need for resorting to violence to boost my ego. For that reason I sometimes struggle to understand the mentality of people who seek influence by fear.

There are some basics that I do understand however. Firstly, if you are selecting a target, you select someone you are confident in attacking. Someone who you can definitely beat up, or whose response will be so weak that you will be seen to gain a ‘victory’.

You do not, under any circumstances, attack the mental kid. Because he will kick. Your. Arse.

It is the unpredictable nature of the mental kid that makes him such an avoidable target. Mentals already have a famous knack for uncovering hidden depths of super human strength, without you giving them an excuse find it.

No, it is much safer for the bully to pick a fight in which he will not be embarrassed.

Which is why Al Qaeda are a bit like a school bully. Yes, they have a stated aim of ridding the world of the anti-Islamic infidels in the West, but that is obviously just a cover. They have chosen to ignore the mental kid in the corner of the playground, China. You see, in China, Islam is essentially ILLEGAL. Not frowned upon, or simply a minority. No. It is effectively banned.

Now you would think that this would be cause enough for Al Qaeda to flex it’s muscles in China’s general direction, wouldn’t you? But no, that would be liking prodding the mental kid with a shitty stick. Only in this case the mental kid is the biggest kid in the WORLD, and he has nuclear weapons.

Whilst the the West will take on Al Qaeda is carefully (or not) chosen battlegrounds, China would simply send a few dozen nuclear missiles their way and we’d be left trying to explain to our grand-kids what this place they read about in the history books, the Middle East, was actually like “back in the day.”

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