Posted on 02/11/2011 12:58:52 PM PST by Kartographer
So the question on everyone's mind is: who's next?
The Egyptian revolution is a challenge to state led authoritarian capitalism, but it is also a response to rising food costs and soaring unemployment. There is also the social media factor, which has allowed protesters to circumvent traditional state run media sources and organize more efficiently.
What countries offer a similar mixture to that found in Egypt? And what investments are at stake?
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I doubt it will be Vietnam, Venezuela, or China. In fact I would take them off the list because they already have the Soros brand of “freedom”.
I’m guessing Algeria or Yemen.
No America? Pussies
take on an armed america, i don’t think so...
1. Morocco
2. Jordan
3. Syria
4. Saudi Arabia
5. Iran
6. Libya
7. Yemen
8. Pakistan
9. Vietnam
10. Venezuela
11. China
Iran, Vietnam, Venezuela and China have absolutely no chance of becoming the next Egypt.
1.) They are not U.S. allies and a cut off of U.S. aid cannot be threatened by Obama.
2.) They have absolutely no qualms about gunning down protestors in the streets.
3.) They do not give a rat's @ss what CNN or "world opinion" thinks.
The situation is going to be volatile for some time to come. The Brothers might not be able to mollify them without some aggressive move on its neighbors.
Nothing binds a people better than war.
It seems the best we can hope for, is that they confine this belligerence to petty border incursions.
I'm beginning to think this is the start of Armageddon.
12. The U.S.
Mubarak’s Egypt is the new Soviet Union. That’s almost funny.
If things were so horrible behind Hosni’s iron curtain, how often did you post about it prior to this uprising?
I liken it to the dominant gang taking over the public schhools in Detroit.
Would that be a great day?
SK, I appreciate you rpositive attitude.... but those in power right now in Egypt are guilty of torturing their own people. NOTHING is assured right now, and your optimisim while nice, is not yet warrented.
Egypt is NOT yet free, a brutal Military is now in power. A very very well armed and trained military is in power.
Mubarak is gone, thats a start. There is a long road ahead for the people of Egypt. Take a step back and start looking at the reality of the situation rather than the cheering mobs in Cairo. Many of those people may be dead inside the next week, and that is no cause for cheering at all.
“This is great news. We could have a world with no dictators.”
Let’s wait and see what happens in Egypt. Yes, one “dictator” is on the run from the mob and military, but nobody has stepped up to be in charge yet.
What if Egypt becomes a strict Shari’a law Islamic setup, where they cut your head off if you don’t love allah exactly the right way or if you cut your beard off?
If all of those 11 do that too, then we could get a Caliphate that will unite all of Islam.
China, is the country to fear these days.....
NOW can we stop turning corn into ethanol??
Don’t forget all the countries in the European Union, esp. Great Britain.
Well....yes and no...this opens up the way for radical Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorists to get a foothold and keep the implementation of their world wide caliphate on schedule.
We’ll see how much FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY take hold, if any...watch for the murder of Christians to take place, wholesale rivers of blood...
so, time to drill for some more domestic fossil fuels?
Mubarak would have been a hero.
I'm sure Israel would have played war with him with a wink and a nod to keep security.
Aircraft carrier skippers worldwide certainly agree with you.
I guess you never heard, “The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.”
They are working out those details. No cash sales of ammo is the primer.
12. Michigan
No, but we should start making them put it into charred white oak barrels and let it age before use.
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