Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 01/27/2011 5:20:37 AM PST by SJackson
This is the best analysis I have seen.
our media does seem to follow this administrations hope that, if a crisis is not reported on, it is not a crisis
This has worked so well with North Korea...
I suppose a first goal of a radicalized Mahgreb and Egypt would be to clear up unfinished business with Israel - war is a great diversion from domestic incompetence and a national unifier
Iranian surrogates Lebanon and Syria would no doubt be glad to collaborate, China and Russia happy to arm them all
Gog and Magog....gathering storm
america needs to do business with nations that mirror its principles... as ben franklin dreamed of, a world where he could travel and know his rights were protected every where...
it will get worse there, due to lack of strength here. we are the “spine” for the rest of the world. if we lack one in the white house, the world will go to hell.
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and the best way to unite the arabs is, of course, ______________________ ?
Hopefully you are reconsidering.
You’re exactly right, the only focus for the Regime right now is organizing the reelection campaign. Being the least qualified guy in the room, there is nothing Premier Hussein can offer to quell the situation in Egypt or anywhere else. All he can do is react to whatever comes next, and that will lead to nothing but disaster in the Middle East.
Think things were bad for the last 400 days of the Carter Administration?? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
How many billions has the US government given to prop up Mubarak? An insane policy, that failed with the Shah and they keep repeating.
However corrupt Egypt’s regime may have been or continues to be, Mubarak succeeded in keeping the Islamists and the religious radicals in check.
In Islamdom we have the choice of Military Dictators or theocratic “democracies” run by and supported by maniac Muslim fanatics. The former are generally better to religious minorities andfor the west than the latter.
Something about that statement has my head spinning. In a pure democracy, whoever holds the voting majority holds the power, however wrongheaded their ideas. (Hitler, for example, was elected.) In a republican democracy, such as our founders envisioned, the founding principles of the constitutions provide an overriding mission statement to keep the raw voting will of the populace in check.
I have always assumed the last part of that to be axiomatic. But the part that has my head spinning is the fact that even here, the "underclass" is managing, by its electoral clout, to undermine the republic. Perhaps it is merely an indication of how far we have fallen from the original intent.
We will be on a cruise line and I trust them to make a wise decision as to whether we actually stop there or not. I do know that if they believe it to be unsafe, they change their itinerary. It's a long ways away and right now, I'm just not worrying about it. It is a dream cruise with also 3 days in Israel.
The Constitution only works as long as you have a sufficiently powerful voting block willing to enforce it. Otherwise it's just a dead piece of paper. Look at how the "Commerce Clause" has mutated into authority for the feds to do anything they please.
The Roman Republic became the Empire when the populace became more interested in which politician would provide the best bread and circuses, rather than in their liberty. It became the Empire when the elites displaced working citizens with slave labor, much like the elites today like illegal immigrants and H1B technical workers. The problem (then and now) is that the displaced citizens lose the willingness to fight for the society that has thrown them away, and the slaves were not willing to fight for it in the first place. So when the barbarians came across the border, it was hard to push them back
Yep. And the modern translation of "bread and circuses" would be, "Hope and Change."
It is increasingly difficult to remain optimistic about the future of the republic. And I am generally a very optimistic guy.
Mubarak has been really good at keeping the Muslim Brotherhood down. After al-Q joining with the Tunisian rebels, I am very nervous about Egypt. Chaos invites lurkers to step in with THEIR plan and it could be very much worse.
In Egypt, the Arab world's largest and most populous country of more than 80 million, massive demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people began on Tuesday in what was billed as a "Day of Anger" and are continuing despite a ban by a very rattled government. Smaller protests are likewise occurring in Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Algeria. The domino effect so feared by Middle Eastern strongmen after Tunisian protesters chased their president from power earlier this month after a 24-year rule may soon become reality in Egypt.It's all about the proposed UNSC resolution. Thanks SJackson.
All of this is hitting the fan now because the rogues of the world think they can have their day while Marxist neophite Obama is the POTUS.
Westbrook 40:04 - “Prophecy is being fulfilled right in front of our eyes.”
I couldn’t agree more!
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