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2005-07-08 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Egypt should not close its mission, it should enlarge it. Complete with a sizeable self-protection force of the best soldiers they've got. And that action should be matched by every other nation that makes even a pretense of being free and civilized. Hey world, if you want to stop these terrorist b**tards you have to stand up and face them down. And if you don't, eventually they'll turn over your rock and face YOU down.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-07-08 00:55|| 2005-07-08 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Egyptian soldiers? These would be the same gentlemen whose guns and sandles are held together with duct tape? (Or at least that's what Mr. Wife reported seeing back in 1986 -- I suppose things could have improved since then.)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-08 07:02|| 2005-07-08 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey TW, with enough duct tape I can fix anything.
And I didn't mean to say even their best soldiers were any good - but how good do they need to be? It's not like they'd be facing the USMC.
The important thing is for everyone to turn around and make a stand rather than continue to retreat in the face of terrorist attacks. Terrorism only works when people allow themselves to be terrorized. During the Blitz the British refused to be terrorized under seriously terrifying conditions. The Philipinos and Spanish, and now Egyptians are terrorized, under significantly less terrifying conditions. It is attitude that matters.
My wife has said the hardest lesson she ever had to teach our kids was that there are evil people in the world; people naturally avoid doing hard things, so I suspect a lot of parents avoided ever teaching that lesson. As a result there are a lot of people in the (civilized) world now who fundamentally do not understand the concept of evil.

Posted by glenmore">glenmore 2005-07-08 08:24|| 2005-07-08 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 An appeasement to the killers.

Posted by Captain America 2005-07-08 08:54|| 2005-07-08 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Very true, glenmore. And now duct tape comes in all sorts of cool colors. It's just that what I know of the Egyptian mentality comes from them having been defended from the world for 5000+ years by the desert -- they were only mighty warriors before anyone else had chariots and professional soldiers. And with the current culture of grossly underpaid soldiery and a tradition of bribe-taking, how safe would the inhabitants of the embassy be, with such guarding the entrance? Perhaps, like Pakistan, they'll re-open the embassy in Jordan, where it's safer.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-08 13:17|| 2005-07-08 13:17|| Front Page Top

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