The Last straw?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7186501.stm

'Eight Thai soldiers have been killed by suspected Muslim separatist rebels in the violence-hit south, according to an army spokesman.
The soldiers were on escort duty in Narathiwat province, which borders Malaysia, when the ambush took place.'

Having kept an eye on this insurgency since I found out about it perhaps three years ago, it seems to me that this may well represent a turning point. The Thai government have tried very heavy military presence, planes full of origami swans, light-handed military presence and nothing has worked. Knowing that the Thais are peaceful in the extreme, apart from when provoked enough, I'd say that the point of sufficient provocation has just been reached.

This is bad news for the young jihadis of far southern Thailand. The beheading brigades ('Officials say one soldier was beheaded, and one report quotes an army spokesman as saying attempts were apparently made to behead the others too') will now be destroyed, as will many innocent co-religionists of the jihadis. The blood of the innocent, both Buddhist and Muslim, is on the latters heads.

Its very difficult not to see the many Muslim insurgencies and terrorist operations round the world as a many-headed hydra. From the Phillipines to Mauritania, groups with apparently the same goals and the same psychopathy murder and assasinate and blast their way to... well nothing really. Apart from engendering hatred for Islam in general, its hard to see any goals of theirs which have been realised. Apart from the Gaza strip and a few little fiefdoms in the mountains of north western Pakistan, they control no territory. Yet I can walk a few hundred yards from here in West London and listen to men with exactly the same world view and playbook. It is very disturbing to know that the 2% actually doing the 'martydom' operations (has there ever been such a cynical euphemism?) have a huge pool of 'talent' growing up all over the world for future activities.

What will happen in Thailand? And is it what will be happening in Britain in ten years?