Egypt on the brink

[Billybob]

Radioactive sand could be the cure for prostate cancer... If that means less of old sawbones stickin his finger up my shady moist side less times in my life,... so be it.

Whether it's the docs finger or the nozzle on the gas pump same result....

 

[Nraman]

I'm not talking about giving up to them and bowing down to their interests.
If our countries interests are compromised, we will own the suez canal......

Back in the 60s the British stepped in to keep the canal open, we got involved to stabilize the situation by political means. And some threats.

 

[Billybob]

Back in the 60s the British stepped in to keep the canal open, we got involved to stabilize the situation by political means. And some threats.

It's not the sixties. Assuming things would be the same is like saying Britain could once again be the worlds biggest dope dealer and defeat China.

http://bosp.kcc.hawaii.edu/Horizons/Horizons2002/The_Opium_Wars.html

 

[MD Froman]

No can't do.
It would bring the oil prices down, the higher the better for the oil business.
We attacked Iraq to maintain high oil prices. If you think this statement is BS, read the script of the last meeting between Saddam and April Glaspie US ambassador to Iraq just before the war.

Nothing truer has ever been said.He would not play ball and had the OPEC Sheiks in a tizzy and the US oil service and brokering interests(who also became the largest providers of construction and logistics for the war effort) over a barrel. All we could do at that point was say "get on board, or else" and Saddam chose "or else" and the rest is history.

 

[donner]

Perhaps U.S. aid kept an unpopular dictator in power in Egypt for too long. Without the massive amounts of U.S. aid perhaps Mubarak would have lost power in a minor coup long ago. Apparently he was brutal and used torture widely. The parallels to Iran and the Shah may apply.

i would agree with this, but it's a separate issue from whether mideast meetings at camp david have been a success. Not all of them have been, but the Camp David Accord did get Egypt and Israel to stop fighting. It was a success. And the money we've paid Egypt has stabilized the canal region and allowed for economic growth. Look at what one week of instability is going to do to the market. Sometimes foreign aid works.

 

[Nraman]

Sometimes foreign aid works.

The ole sow has run out of tits. Everybody overseas, friend or foe has to be cut off. They need to take care of their problems on their own.

 

[Istandalone]

The ole sow has run out of tits. Everybody overseas, friend or foe has to be cut off. They need to take care of their problems on their own.

I'd say its time to take the leash off Israel! All others are going to become Islamic Theocratic Governments.

 

[vvvvvvv]

The ole sow has run out of tits. Everybody overseas, friend or foe has to be cut off. They need to take care of their problems on their own.

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We seem to be in agreement.

 

[FenixTxM3]

I'd say its time to take the leash off Israel! All others are going to become Islamic Theocratic Governments.

What do you mean by that?

 

[Nraman]

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We seem to be in agreement.

I think that as time goes by, more people will realize that it is not possible to keep borrowing and giving freebies both foreign and domestic. It is becoming a matter of our survival as a nation.