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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
UCA channels?
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
UCA channels?
Considering many Americans still think of AJ as a jihad-friendly TV network, it is doubtful that it would generate either the ratings or advertising revenue to stay afloat very long in the US.
Cable companies aren't charity organizations.
United Corporations of America, I think. We're all supposed to know he means the USA when he says that.
lol..it would have to be on the channel before it can be taken off. :lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
I need a bouton's Schticktionary to keep up with his rants.:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
Like you said, mostly Muslim population, but more importantly the power vacuum needing to be filled. Does Egypt have a properly organized minority party to fill that void? I dont know, serious question.Quote:
Originally Posted by MannyIsGod
Organization is of utmost importance as the soon-to-be-former president trots through the last steps of his very long waltz.
Seeing as the autocrat has been in power for 30+ years and the dissenters specifically chanted the president's name for ouster along with the Interior Minister (?) for the brutal methods employed by the administration to quell political movements, I'd fancy a guess that there is no organized political party to take the reins of power after his ouster.
Again, I dont know that to be the case, but look at Iraq's shit storm once a brutal dictator like Sadaam was removed. Granted, Iraq has a very proportionate number of minorities that all despise one another for whatever reasons, but I dont think Egypt is some homogeneous society of like minded individuals ready to unite under one common banner, is all.
To me, organization is the first trick in the hat to grab for power in this situation. 30 years under the current regime makes me think that the level of organization required isnt there for Egypt's minority political party/parties.
Yet you cant throw a stone without hitting an imam networked into the largest conglomeration of money and power in the Arab world neatly organized in a big handbook conveniently interpreted by the venerated.
Just a guess.
There is an opposition group, DW. Actually I think there is more than one but I'm not very well versed on Egyptian politics. I do know, however, that it is not Iran and the likelyhood of a theocratic is not likely.
Much as there are a lot of Christian elements in our government, there will be Islamic influence over theirs. But thats in no way theocracy.
A power vacuum leading to another autocracy wouldn't necessarily lead to theocracy, either. Iraq was anything but a theocracy. The power vacuum can lead to government forms outside of democracy, but a theocracy requires that the vacuum be filled by a group that is essentially a church or primarily fundamentalist. I don't see anyone like that in Egypt that is any position to take power.
"a theocracy requires that the vacuum be filled by a group that is essentially a church or primarily fundamentalist."
and totally authoritarian, like the Catholic Church or Iran.
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Originally Posted by MannyIsGod
Why don't you just follow the lead of those who are versed on Egyptian politics and just say you don't know what is going to happen.
They got the memo. Hitler=evil.
http://img.rtvslo.si/_up/upload/2011...t-_0131_11.jpg
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Originally Posted by xeromass
Must be a Tea Party member.
Some analysts believe the 83-year-old dictator, with his back against the wall, ordered all police forces out of the main cities to undermine the momentum of anti-regime demonstrations. With no police opposition, the euphoric protesters soon dispersed as a shocking rise in crime made security their foremost concern.
"The security vacuum serves Mubarak’s interest as people want to see a quick end to the situation and want law and order restored," explains Moustafa Kamel El-Sayed, professor of political science at Cairo University.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/149738
Because I want to give my baseless and meaningless opinion! :depressedQuote:
Originally Posted by SnakeBoy
What are rambling about? Im changing the world here.Quote:
Originally Posted by MannyIsGod
Don't feel bad. Glenn Beck just came on and he started with "It's important to understand what's going on in Egypt, maybe I'm wrong but....". So you're in good company.Quote:
Originally Posted by MannyIsGod
Damn you couldn't just dig the knife in but you had to twist that bitch by comparing me to Glen Beck?
thats the ultimate insult. get off the canvas, manny.
Germany is always so far ahead of the US in style and what's in. They had a form of the emo flop and attitude in the 30's and 40's. U.S. just started this mainstream in the late 90's.Quote:
Originally Posted by xeromass
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Originally Posted by MannyIsGod
Tbh, you didn't try to drag Van Jones into what's happening in Egypt so it wasn't really a fair comparison.
apparently he's calling off police in major cities so crime can ravage everything. doesnt look very good at all.
what a POS if that is true
F.A.Q. on U.S. Aid to Egypt: Where Does the Money Go—And Who Decides How It’s Spent?
Egypt gets the most U.S. foreign aid of any country except for Israel. (This doesn't include [2] the money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.) The amount varies each year and there are many different funding streams, but U.S. foreign assistance to Egypt has averaged just over $2 billion every year since 1979,
According to the State Department, U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion annually [5] in a stream of funding known as Foreign Military Financing.
that equipment has included [5] fighter jets, tanks, armored personnel carriers, Apache helicopters, anti-aircraft missile batteries and aerial surveillance aircraft.
Egypt can purchase this equipment either through the U.S. military or directly from U.S. defense contractors, and it can do so on credit.
The other group that benefits from this aid arrangement is U.S. defense contractors [11]. As we reported with Sunlight Foundation, contractors including BAE Systems, General Dynamics, General Electric, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have all done business [12] with the Egyptian government through relationships facilitated by high-powered DC lobbyists.
Funding for programs that promote democracy and good governance through direct funding to NGOs in Egypt averaged about $24 million from fiscal year 1999 to 2009. But these, too, had “limited impact,” due to “a lack of Egyptian government cooperation [16],” :lol :lol
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/...ides-how-spent
I'd guess the military will take over and tell Mubarak to step down and leave. The military has had a hand in the past 2 or 3 presidential changeovers. Gamal Nasser and the military pretty much took over the country and put King Farouk on his yacht and sent him off, and then of course the assassination of Sadat by members of the military (even though it was just a small group associated with al-Jihad).
The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest opposition organization in Egypt even though they were banned and outlawed by Nasser, they just run under other political ideologies.
I think the US has worried too much about Muslim taking over Egypt. It could work.
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/...hn_Bolton1.jpg
Bolton: Mubarak’s Downfall Would Mean We Need To Bomb Iran Sooner
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/01/bolton-egypt-iran/
:lol :lol :lol
Great article on huffpo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qanta-..._b_816706.html