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dice roll... you feel lucky? israel is &@*%ing bricks. the US habit of supporting dictators is a heavy weight. suez canal? lets hope it is not another shah/iran situation.otoh, egypt has been sh^^ing on palastine for years (as have other arab states. no one wants a palistine state- they just like to talk about it to poke israel.). feel lucky???interesting times indeed...
This won't stop until the world has run out of flowers and colors!!!!In the last decade, there was the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, Tulip in Kyrgyzstan, the Green Revolution in Iran, the Blue Revolution in Kuwait, Cornflower in Belarus and Saffron in Burma, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon... now Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt... this is a part of the world that's always a bit unstable, but I don't think we've seen a series of citizen-led uprisings like this, one after another, before...Just curious if something bigger is on the close horizon...?They were also protesting in Yemen FWIWTunisia, Egypt, all these little mini-rebellions going on over there... who's next? We seeing the start of a wave of these?
-QG
This won't stop until the world has run out of flowers and colors!!!!In the last decade, there was the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, Tulip in Kyrgyzstan, the Green Revolution in Iran, the Blue Revolution in Kuwait, Cornflower in Belarus and Saffron in Burma, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon... now Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt... this is a part of the world that's always a bit unstable, but I don't think we've seen a series of citizen-led uprisings like this, one after another, before...Just curious if something bigger is on the close horizon...?They were also protesting in Yemen FWIWTunisia, Egypt, all these little mini-rebellions going on over there... who's next? We seeing the start of a wave of these?
-QG
You know, for lawless, bloody, populists uprisings, they sure do get some purty names.
Guess it's the "thing" to do with revolutions. Kinda like sticking -gate on the end of every scandal.-QGThis won't stop until the world has run out of flowers and colors!!!!In the last decade, there was the Rose Revolution in Georgia, the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, Tulip in Kyrgyzstan, the Green Revolution in Iran, the Blue Revolution in Kuwait, Cornflower in Belarus and Saffron in Burma, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon... now Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt... this is a part of the world that's always a bit unstable, but I don't think we've seen a series of citizen-led uprisings like this, one after another, before...Just curious if something bigger is on the close horizon...?They were also protesting in Yemen FWIW
China's government will be screwed if their people ever learn pig latin.-QG
I think that it's a faulty assumption to think that it's highly likely that whatever emerges will not be friendly to us. Anything can happen once the region is destabilized, but so far the protests appear to be secular in nature.
It's true that this could go a lot of ways, but I would think it unlikely that it goes in a way that is particularly good for us after we've been in bed with Mubarak for so long. Even so I'm always going to root for people to have freedom and democracy even if they are foreigners.
Now that the United States has removed the target from their back by moving away from the hamfisted hardline foreign policy of the last administration nations no longer have a boogeyman to placate the populace and must be held accountable for domestic policy. Now we see popular organic revolution around the Middle East. Is there a connection?
Obama's foreign policy isn't uniformly less hardline than Bush's. This administration has deliberately reached out to the muslim world and they have been marginally more critical of Israel than the previous one, but they have conversely taken a more robust approach towards Iran and North Korea than the last guys did.
Even if Joe did not say something stupid, the extremists would make up something or just go back further in history.
Very interesting observation.
Not really. If you think for a moment that such subtleties are affecting popular uprisings you don't know much about foreign political cultures.
We have Iran and Hamas winning thanks to the GOP hardline positions.
Would you all stop it? Never a moment wasted for both sides to start pointing the finger at the other over every situation in the World...as I said earlier in the thread it's not all about us.
This is not getting enough love. So the uprising was "sponsored" by the last administration, but has been "sanctioned" by the current? Or am I reading that wrong? Regardless, it reads like a chapter in a CIA spy novel. Very interesting to me.
Not pointing fingers, just saying that the current situation in Egypt and the ongoing movement in Tunisia have very little to do with US foreign policy (other than long term geopolitical conditions) and I hope it stays that way.
Thats what i plan on doing, i love watching the turmoil over in my favorite part of the world
It's not a show. People's lives are at stake.
Yeah, coming from the guy who could be next in line for such a fall, that position makes sense.
He probably won't be though, because if there is ever an uprising in Saudi Arabia, the United States would be forced to get involved, likely with troops. Let's hope it doesn't happen.
Hmmm, I wouldn't think this is what we would want to happen here.
What does this mean?
They are Christian....
I thought he was talking about pimples...
It means that if ever the poor people in the US see that their right to have HDTV and iPhones is challenged, they will revolt with pitchforks and lanterns.
You've been pretty much saying the exact same thing for days until DD came in and stated otherwise. Pretty hypocritical to bash Hannity for basically agreeing with you.
Exactly right
Well, Great Britain's newspapers make the Enquirer look like the a reputable scientific journal. They're apt to run all sorts of stuff that ends up being total garbage. The Telegraph is a little better than some, but still prone to running just about anything as long as it will guarantee lots of attention.
You're wrong on three counts. First off, my comments about the Muslim Brotherhoods was a response to Dr. Detroit, not the other way around: go back and look.Second, I stated my fears that once the revolution had taken place, the Muslim Brotherhood as the only organized group would be in a good position to take over. I am still fearful of this. I NEVER stated that the Muslim Brotherhood were currently in control of the uprising. That would be ignorant to the extreme. I don't agree with Hannity over this.
I had a friend travel to Rome recently, a family member travel to Columbia, another to China, another to Turkey, and I myself was just in Costa Rica. All of them matched my own experience- Fox News is everywhere. CNN is in most places, but not everywhere- Fox News is everywhere.
It is not, IMO, as dangerous as Biden's ridiculous statement. But it's still dangerous and irresponsible.
Canada Rejected Fox news for years....it was only allowed to be broadcast here for the first time in 2010.I would say, around the world, the #1 news source is BBC. It's been in all 40 countries I have been to.
the #### hits the fan if Saudi has this type of problem
you guys reject our football so thats not saying much
The cartoon is pretty accurate. The US gives the corrupt Mubarak $1.3 Billion every year.
Get to the hexagonal round (or I guess now the final-8) in qualifying and we'll talk. -QG
I lived overseas for 15 years and never saw Fox once unless it was on AFN.CNN International on the other hand is on every hotel TV in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I guess everything changed in the past two years as we now only see Fox and CNN is hard to find.
