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2005-05-19 Africa: North
Egypt Maintains Plans For Attack On Israel
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Posted by Fred 2005-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I'm hard pressed to figure out why Egypt's plans don't somehow invalidate some, most or all of the $2 billion we send them every year.
Posted by Raj 2005-05-19 08:29||   2005-05-19 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not saying I really trust these people, but how much is bluff and bluster to keep their own people happy? Heck, we probably have plans to attack Israel, and Canada, and Mexico, and Britain, and... Doesn't mean we're even thinking about doing so.

As for Raj's question, I suspect the $2,000,000,000 is mostly so that the State Dept. Egypt section gets a good retirement package. Sec'y Rice has a lot on her plate, but I hope one item is to hose out the stables.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2005-05-19 09:27|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2005-05-19 09:27|| Front Page Top

#3 True, Jackal, but we never said it was our grand plan to destroy a particular race/religious group in those countries. Has Egypt?

Egypt Maintains Plans For Attack On Israel
Which should exclude them from any participation in "peace plan" negotiations.
Posted by jules 187 2005-05-19 10:12||   2005-05-19 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd suggest that it means, sans the messy moral questions, that they're just more focused.

One goal. One item on the agenda. Unity of purpose. Focus.

Of course, not being into the whole scientific method, cause=> effect thingy, were they to succed in this one single goal, well, they'd be as lost lambs ever after. So sad.

An entire collection of ideologies, approx 1/4 of humanity, boiled down to one point of reference, one sparkling idea, one tiny tiny (really extra super small), um, datum.

Perhaps it's actually quite nice to have a brain as smooth as a cue ball.

On a clear disk, you can seek forever.
Posted by .com 2005-05-19 11:08||   2005-05-19 11:08|| Front Page Top

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