Two million Egyptians express love for new Democratic Freedoms...

[LnGrrrR]

Of course there are negative effects... There are reactions to every action. The problem is... You cannot take using the big stick off the table.

Except you're using the stick on people who haven't actually attacked you. That'd be like walking along the street, and hitting random people with said stick. Then, when locked up, you said, "Well, I had to hit them first, I'm pretty sure they were going to hurt me first." Don't think the courts will buy that one, and neither will the international community.

The last time we tried to use that excuse (Iraq), it didn't pan out so well.

[Yonivore]

Except you're using the stick on people who haven't actually attacked you. That'd be like walking along the street, and hitting random people with said stick. Then, when locked up, you said, "Well, I had to hit them first, I'm pretty sure they were going to hurt me first." Don't think the courts will buy that one, and neither will the international community.

The last time we tried to use that excuse (Iraq), it didn't pan out so well.

You do realize Iraq had been firing on U.S. forces, enforcing the no fly zone, for over a decade...among some other pretty provocative acts. Not exactly a random response.

Analogy fail.

[ChumpDumper]

You do realize Iraq had been firing on U.S. forces, enforcing the no fly zone, for over a decade...among some other pretty provocative acts. Not exactly a random response.

Analogy fail.

You do realize Iraq was completely under the thumb of the US and no US personnel died during that time.

Jingo fail.

[LnGrrrR]

You do realize Iraq had been firing on U.S. forces, enforcing the no fly zone, for over a decade...among some other pretty provocative acts. Not exactly a random response.

Analogy fail.

Fair enough. But Egypt has done none of those things, correct?

[RandomGuy]

By the way, Egyptians are not Arabs, they are Egyptians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

Egypt (i /ˈiːdʒɪpt/; مصر, Miṣr, Arabic: [mesˤɾ]; Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ]; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Kīmi),
officially the Arab Republic of Egypt

Wanna try that again?

[RandomGuy]

Fair enough. But Egypt has done none of those things, correct?

But, but, they *could*!!

That means that we MUST then invade a country with a population five times larger than Iraq in dense urban areas.

I mean that would surely make all those people who think we are bad love us, right?

[Marcus Bryant]

Sweet. Another foolish war, underwritten by the PRC.

[boutons_deux]

"You do realize Iraq had been firing on U.S. forces, enforcing the no fly zone"

Yep, 4000 dead US military, 100Ks Iraqis dead/maimed, US taxpayer $2T wasted , yep, don't with the UCA, it will you and itself up extremely nasty.

[RandomGuy]

By the way, Egyptians are not Arabs, they are Egyptians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

Egypt (i /ˈiːdʒɪpt/; مصر, Miṣr, Arabic: [mesˤɾ]; Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ]; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Kīmi),
officially the Arab Republic of Egypt

Wanna try that again?

(too classic not to be at the top of the page)

[RandomGuy]

And random I never mentioned the Muslim brotherhood, though I did mention a theocratic/democratic hybrid as a possible eventuality.

Now that I would agree with, until their educational system catches up with the outmoded religious bull , and they embrace secularism.

Not much has happened in the year since.

THe military still has its claws in everything.