[KDD]

You can thank Carter for that. We had to help Egypt maintain a strong military...especially since by making the peace with Israel, the Islamic world considered Egypt to be a traitor to Islam, and bought and paid for by the Great Satan, Anwar Sadat was assasinated because of it. Sadat was assassinated during the annual 6th October victory parade in Cairo. A fatwā approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the U.S. for his role in the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. Sadat was protected by four layers of security and the army parade should have been safe due to ammunition-seizure rules. However, the officers in charge of that procedure were on hajj to Mecca.

[George W. Bush]

A very fine post.

So often, we forget the real and significant connections between these people and the events. Even recent history is forgotten as we rush to make new policy that virtually guarantees a re-enactment of the same fundamental policy errors that make matters in the oilpatch worse.