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Mubarak's Puppet Controller Yes if he says go he will comply
Mr. Obama is carefully looking for his nads.
Mubarak's Puppet Controller Yes if he says go he will comply
I love when other people from other countries slam us for our foreign policy and then ask for our help in the same breath. Good luck with your revolution.
I don't see the problem with that. What's wrong with requesting the things you do want and rejecting the things you don't want?
I love when other people from other countries slam us for our foreign policy and then ask for our help in the same breath. Good luck with your revolution.
Mr. Obama is carefully looking for his nads.
Unlikely... Obama is looking at the ramifications of a fundamentalist Islaamic takeover of the Sinai region and the borders of the Suez canal.
Military/political instability along the Suez Canal threatens (to quote the Blues Brothers) you, me, everybody.
There's also the fact that Israel and the US share close political ties with a strong Jewish vote in the American North East.
Obama would be a fool to his people and his economy if he simply called for the (comparatively) moderate Egyptian president to resign immediately. The US needs to maintain diplomacy with Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan.
The same is true of the UK and the EU to a smaller extent, but still true.
The US itself has managed to rid itself of a Christian Fundamentalist president who condoned torture and extra-ordinary rendition and knows that it has to be careful when throwing stones so close to the glass house it has just emerged from!
Your so called claims for Human rights is being tested ,Mubarak is a Tyrant and a Murderer Yes Obama is doing nothing (or not enough of something)and yes that is what I slammed him for.If you don't care for Human rights just say it ,enough "Monitering" But I suppose you don't fear for a foreign country as much as a local would (and why should you)so I don't see how your post is helpful in anyway.
I do slam his lack of action and still plead him to take a more firm action what is wrong with that exactly ?
So what do we do? If we support your revolution and some crazy US hating fundamentalist dictator comes into power, a new boiling pot of anti-US terrorism is started. If we don't support your revolution, the Egyptian people hate the US more and a new boiling pot of anti-US terrorism is started.
You see the dilemma? It's just better if you guys handle this revolution on your own while the people of the US wait patiently for some Egyptian radical to detonate a dirty bomb in a US subway.
The problem is all our big talk about democracy, self-determination, human and civil rights that we've been spouting for decades. Is it real or is it BS?
Do we support dictators or do we support oppressed people?
The ugly truth is, we usually support those dictators who side with us, and support oppressed peoples whose dictators don't side with us. Another word for this is hypocrisy.
Then what will happen when hundreds of American commuters prepare themselves for a slow agonising death? That will aid the progress of decision making? It might just work.So what do we do? If we support your revolution and some crazy US hating fundamentalist dictator comes into power, a new boiling pot of anti-US terrorism is started. If we don't support your revolution, the Egyptian people hate the US more and a new boiling pot of anti-US terrorism is started.
You see the dilemma? It's just better if you guys handle this revolution on your own while the people of the US wait patiently for some Egyptian radical to detonate a dirty bomb in a US subway.
Exactly. So why even say anything at all at this point?
But it's never in our interest. Too many unforeseen consequences to deal with, including this current situation. All these current situations in fact, because American hands were in them all in some way.If it's in the interest of the US to support a tin-pot dictator...so be it.
This vlog was recorded on January 18th by Asmaa Mahfouz, the girl who helped start it all. She had shared it on her Facebook, and it had gone viral. It was so powerful and so popular, that it drove Egyptians by the thousands into Tahrir Square, and drove the Egyptian government to block Facebook.
Powerful stuff. To think this lady went to Tahrir Square by herself with no way of knowing if anyone (other than security forces) would show up.
The thing to remember is that the US and EU will support the most profitable bottom line.
Oil prices are already weighing heavily on our "recovering" economies and a militarisation of the Suez would force tanker prices up massively.
I know that I can barely afford to keep the tank of my Audi topped up right now and I bet that you're feeling the pinch too. Events in Egypt (and then Israel of course) will directly affect the petrol pump prices.
Human rights .vs. big business? Never any contest.
Mubarak pledges to step down in September
Too much blood and water have passed under the bridge to return to these 'high ideals' where efficiency, order, and profits are placed above messier things like human and civil rights.
Everybody's a hypocrite. I say untie all our knots and let them all shoot amongst themselves.I love when other people from other countries slam us for our foreign policy and then ask for our help in the same breath. Good luck with your revolution.
I find it strange how people are asking for intervention.
From the very unclear information I got:
1) There is a battle between pro and anti parties.
2) The army stays in the middle to separate them.
Yes there are some issues, nobody likes that people die or get wounded in the process.
But it still seems that the Egyptian people are fighting Egyptian people, like a mini civil war in the country. Every one is blaming the other, as usual.
As long as the military keep "reasonable" order (seems difficult for them) without starting a massacre of one party, I do not see any reason for external intervention.
Everybody's a hypocrite. I say untie all our knots and let them all shoot amongst themselves.
I will just have to correct that there is no Pro Mubarak party.Most of those are secret Militia and Police that remain in hiding who were appointed by bussines men and former Parlman memmbers.