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To: ventanax5

I think the best and only hope for keeping the Muslim Brotherhood out of power is the army. They are the real rulers of the country.

The Generals ran Turkey for a century after Attaturk secularized the country. But I think they have lost control to the Islamist government that they incautiously let into power.

Of course the army was also a powerful force in Iran under the Shah, until Jimmuh Carter helped depose him and brought in the Mullahs. There, as in Turkey, the rise of Islamists meant that the generals lost much of their power.

So, I expect that the Generals in Egypt will resist a Muslim Brotherhood takeover, because they would lose their privileged role in the country in that event.

That’s about the best hope we have, since the idiots in the State Department haven’t a clue, and our Muslim President wants to see world Islamic rule—preferably with himself as Glorious Leader.


7 posted on 02/02/2011 2:38:47 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Too bad Obama has put the country in a Lose, Lose situation. If the Obama Mob wins we lose. If the Mubarak Mob wins we lose. All hail Obama. If you do not understand...you lose.


10 posted on 02/02/2011 2:55:24 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: Cicero

Remember general Heiser’s role in subduing the Iranian military? Wonder how he sleeps now?

Also, remember that the Shah’s final resting place is in Cairo. The lessons and ultimate destiny of the Shah — his blind trust of US (Shah intuitively was distrustful and weary of democrap presidents, but still he was blindsided by the level of their betrayal and perfidy — is not lost on Egyptian military.

My eternal hope is that they stay awake and weary and fight back against obummer’s sickening designs every step of the way and not get blindsided the way the Shah/Iran was, or else they/us will lose Egypt for ever.


13 posted on 02/02/2011 4:22:55 PM PST by parisa
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