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2011-01-31 Africa North

Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt

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Posted by Steve White 2011-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 He is starting to look more and more like jimmah.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2011-01-31 00:34|| 2011-01-31 00:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush lost Egypt in the same way he 'lost' Iraq.

'Lost' in leftspeak meaning facilitating the removal of a dictator.

Posted by phil_b 2011-01-31 00:56|| 2011-01-31 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 IIRC PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > AFRICA'S BIG AWAKENING, + BIG TEST AHEAD FOR AFRICA'S BRAVE NEW WORLD [Redrawing of Colonial Euro-made borders].

Maybe POTUS BAMMER can adopt one or more Son(s)from Africa like MADONNA + BRADGELINA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-31 01:50|| 2011-01-31 01:50|| Front Page Top

#4 As long as he doesn't manage to go down in history as the president who lost USA.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-31 04:07|| 2011-01-31 04:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Give him time g(r)om. I'm sure he's working on it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-31 07:54|| 2011-01-31 07:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Threfore the use of the word manage.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-01-31 08:08|| 2011-01-31 08:08|| Front Page Top

#7 AP prints dumbest statement of the day.

Oil prices spiked 4.3 percent Friday on fears that the Suez Canal might be closed. Roughly 3,500 oil tankers a year plus thousands of other cargo ships travel through the canal on their way from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. After the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the canal was shut down for eight years. A closure today would add 6,000 miles to trips as ships detour around Africa's Cape of Good Hope. Those trips would risk the threat of attack by Somali pirates.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2011-01-31 10:54|| 2011-01-31 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 In a sense that would be good, THEN the Navies of the world would clean out that particular swamp.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-01-31 18:57|| 2011-01-31 18:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Both of the PAK Political Opposition + RED CROSS are warning that PAKISTAN could face TUNISIA-STYLE TROUBLES.

Whether it does or does not, POLITICAL JIHAD = RADICAL ISLAM'S HAND IN PAKISTAN = AFPAK, + CENTRAL ASIA IS LIKELY TO BE STRENGTHENED.

What is happening in North Africa + Mideast will ripple through MUSLIM ASIA, + NON-MUSLIM ETHNIC REGIONS.

See also

* DAILY TIMES.Pk > EGYPT UNREST SHAKES ARAB WORLD, UPSETS US POLICY.

ARTIC > GRIA's Barry RUBIN = EGYPT may turn out to be the BIGGEST DISASTER [bigger-n-worser] FOR THE US SINCE THE FALL OF THE SHAH OF IRAN + 1979 ISLAMIC REVOLUTION.

And its NOT over yet.

* CNN + FOX NEWS this AM > Analysts are watching to see iff EGYPTIAN PROESTS will spread to SYRIA.

* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > AMERICA'S FRAGILE ARAB DOMINOES.

* SAME > THE US MORAL CONUNDRUM IN EGYPT.

* SAME > PERILOUS CHOICES FOR EGYPT'S MILITARY, which still enjoys historically high public veneration as a Mil, State Institution at a time of MAXIMUM PERIL FOR IT + EGYPTIAN NATION VEE ON-GOING ANTI-MUBARAK = "JASMINE" MASS PROTESTS.

* TOPIX > THE ALTERNATIVE IS ISLAM.

"ALL POLITICS IS A COALITION" + "POLITICS IS WARFARE BY OTHER MEANS", as the Old Sayings go.

Hence

* ABOVE SCOPE = IIUC, IOW MAINSTREAM = POPULAR ISLAMIC CRIES OF "FREEDOM/DEMOCRACY NOW" could easily devol = become perverted into WORSE, RADIC ISLAMIST/SHARIA-LED TOTALITARIANISM.

E.g. ROBESPIERRE + PRE-NAPOLEON JACOBIN FRANCE. LENINISM-VS-TROTSKYISM-VS-STALINISM, ....@ETC.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-31 20:52|| 2011-01-31 20:52|| Front Page Top

#10 3am...

Posted by Pappy 2011-01-31 23:04|| 2011-01-31 23:04|| Front Page Top

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