via New York Times.
The entire region is falling apart right before our eyes. This situation is connected to the fighting in Libya, which is connected to the fighting in Syria, which is connected to the fighting in Iraq, which is leading to a brewing rebellion in Saudi Arabia, which is spreading to Jordan, Qatar and now we have evidence of even Egypt getting pulled into the mess.
Our State Dept and Pentagon are so far behind the power curve on these issues that its becoming concerning.
I no longer believe they can walk and chew bubble gum.
At least 21 Egyptian soldiers were killed on Saturday when heavily armed gunmen attacked a border guard post near a remote desert oasis, according to an army spokesman.Don't be confused.
The death toll appeared to be the highest for the military in a single attack in recent memory, and came as the Egyptian government has expressed growing alarm at threats from neighboring countries, and especially from Libya, an increasingly lawless state that shares a long border with Egypt.
The episode occurred around 6 p.m. near the isolated Farafara oasis in Egypt’s western desert, about 120 miles from the Libyan border. During the attack, one of the gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade that struck an ammunition cache, causing an explosion that killed the soldiers and wounded four others, according to a military statement.
The entire region is falling apart right before our eyes. This situation is connected to the fighting in Libya, which is connected to the fighting in Syria, which is connected to the fighting in Iraq, which is leading to a brewing rebellion in Saudi Arabia, which is spreading to Jordan, Qatar and now we have evidence of even Egypt getting pulled into the mess.
Our State Dept and Pentagon are so far behind the power curve on these issues that its becoming concerning.
I no longer believe they can walk and chew bubble gum.
before they use to kick ass and chew bubble gum but there now too busy chewing bubble gum which is good, the interference by foreign powers has always gave tyrants an unfair advantage, now with less foreign intervention they will need their people more so after the mess more real shape of the middle east will emerge i assume
ReplyDeletethe real shape of the middle east? you and i both know whats going to happen. a few borders are going to change and then the majority whether ethnic or religious will dominate and from that we'll see tyrants pop up that rule countries with a strong hand.
Deletethe only difference will be whether or not some bleeding heart liberal or some new wave conservative decides that they can change things and off we go trying to shape a region that would seem to prefer dictators to democracy.
if i'm wrong i'd love to hear your reasoning. my view is extremely gloomy. if you see bright spots then hit me up.
people now are not as accepting to dictators at the same level as before, media censorship is much more weaker than it was before, protesters in in some places drive range rovers to protest, which means they are not needy they want more dignity of choosing who rules not to be forced.
ReplyDeleteopposition can now get its voice to a lot of audience thanks to the internet and people in the middle east mostly being less developed countries are not that good in censoring the internet ( no one has anything like the completely closed local internet of north Korea or the massive amount of censoring that Chinese have with 1000s of government employees checking every comment and every picture on the internet and its search engines) countries in the middle east usually use dumb systems made by American companies for censoring that people seem not to find too much difficulty going around.
dictators now use the word democracy much more than they like, i never heard Saddam say it, not even once, he never had too.
"Libyan insurgents pull an "ISIS", sweeping toward Cairo to link with internal forces;
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But hey, "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
In the middle East there are two sides. One is the religious liberal people who are sometimes appear a dictator. The are eagerly waiting to have all resources under their control. But the another is the fond of democracy but they do not know how to enjoy democracy.
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