Wiggers

Well, that's how the name is pronounced...the Uygher people are a Turkic ethnic group with populations in a number of Central Asian countries and a fair number in China - Xinjiang province to be exact. Now let's be clear, I am no fan of what the Chinese have done in their march to create the new Middle Kingdom. The repression in Tibet and the decimation of ethnic cultures is a human tragedy on a massive scale. Ultimately, China will have a hard time holding it all together despite their exportation of Han Chinese to the disparate regions in an attempt to breed out the native populations. Well over the weekend, this happened:

Rock throwing, stick wielding Uyghers took to the streets of the provincial capital and estimates are coming in that some 140 people were killed. Now take a look at this picture:

That fine fellow enjoying a wee swim is a recent occupant of a cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is a Uygher...oh, did I mention that they are Muslims...Muslim terrorists? This gentleman along with several of his compadres were released from Gitmo and dropped off in Bermuda...without the Brits being notified! Now the facts of how these guys came to be residnets at Gitmo are not entirely clear, but they have something to do with being "picked up on the battlefield," where they were "fighting U.S. forces." The all seeing Obama has decided that they are not a threat to U.S. interests - after all, they just want to go kill Chinese.

File this under diplomatic naivete. Is it possible to tick off our numero uno ally, Great Britain, while simultaneously ticking off a country that is bent on world domination and should be treated with some sense of diplomacy? You betcha! Leave it to Obama and his merry gang of pranksters to do just that. Do you think that the symbology of having their peoples released from U.S. custody would have any impact on how Uyghers in deep central Asia with limited communications? Oh, I don't know, maybe they would feel that they have a new friend in the United States so its worth a shot at trying to overthrow the local government. Point of the matter is, diplomacy requires subtlety and depth of experience - something that is sorely lacking in this administration.