Posted on 01/30/2011 3:29:03 PM PST by pillut48
Could FReepers please give me the bullet points/bottom line of the consequences to the US should/when Egypt's falls to these protesting "revolutionaries"? I've been out of town without Internet access the past few days...seen only snippets of reports here and there on the news...who exactly is behind this "revolution"? Are their nefarious things happening in the background? I see that our current regime is supporting their current regime, or is that just lip service? With the domino effect happening across the middle east just exactly who/m is taking control of these nations? And what will it mean to mean to me and my family in the coming days/weeks/months/years?
This does a pretty good job of explaining it:
O Muslim Brotherhood, Where Art Thou?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2665846/posts
Are THERE nefarious..., not “their”, sorry.
pull out a map and look what borders Egypt has north south east and west and you’ll have your answer.
1) Suez canal
As long as the Islamicists don’t take over, and it doesn’t spread to Saudi Arabia, I would say it doesn’t matter all that much.
The fall of the Egyptian government is essentially the same as when the Iranian government fell to the Mullahs. The leadership that filled the vacuum of the Shah instituted the most agressive and militant regime outside of the Wahabist movment of Saudi Arabia.
I believe that when we are complete in documenting the fall of this regime, we will find that the US government helped to engineer its fall in the mistaken notion that they are creating more stability in the region. In the end it is a very large step in creating massive instability that can and probably will lead to large scale conflict.
If the mullahs take control in Egypt and turn the place into a Muslim theocracy (with Sharia law) , make nice with Iran;’’allies’’, Iran goes nuke, goodbye Israel. Israelis may pre-empt this by taking out Iran with their nukes. Get it?
Watch the price of oil. It went up $4.80/bbl Friday. If the new regime (and believe me, there will be on in the next week or so) closes the Suez Canal for some reason, get ready for 1979 gas lines and odd/even purchasing day.
If you’re old enough to remember Iran in 1979, you are seeing it all over again, but this time it may be far worse in the log run.
It’s really too soon to know.
It depends on the nature of the change. It could be dire (if instability leads to a hard-line Islamicist govt) and it could be not so dire (if we can see some form of an elected government forming).
Right now I’m reading that the protests have taken on an anti-USA, anti-Israel tone...but who knows what to believe?
It’s just simply too soon to know.
There’s one hope I have. Egypt has a large tourist economy...so maybe some practicality can reign.
You seem to be on the very bottom of that pile.
And thanks to Democrat’s alternative energy policy not producing a viable alternative, we’re behind 2 years on Drill Here, Drill Now...
The borders will become very porous to AlQaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah and any other looney faction you want to consider, they will over run the place.
Libya to the west.
Islamic genocidal northern Sudan on the south border
Saudi and Jordan on the east.
Israel and Gaza to the north west.
Suez will become a islamic shooting practice post at ships and effectively shut western supplies down due to be unable to travel.
No matter what happens, the price of oil will skyrocket.
Look for gas rationing if the crap really hits the fan.
Israel loses a large, moderate, albeit unstable peace ally.
ElBaradei, may have a position of power.....we now know he was an Iran sockpuppet all along.
The Egyption people, who have had a crappy existence, will have a worse one.
Tourism to Egypt will dry up overnight.
Drill Baby Drill will become our national theme.
sorry Gaza and israel North East...typing too fast.
You mean like......where the Halibut feeds? Like......where all bottom feeders feed?......On the bottom?....Like?
What you posted was in no way “humorous”
I can take a joke and laugh like most of us but your post was not "funny" in any way.
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