And they patrolling the streets.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2667771/posts?page=1
"Students" and "Tourists" meet Reagan by accident in Moscow.
Posted on 02/02/2011 8:44:52 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
As I watched the making of history in Cairo, I noticed something. The Egyptian Army was moving into the city. A column of tanks was moving down one of the city’s broad avenues. They were M-1 Abrams, the same kind used by the U.S. Army. The Egyptian Army has around 1,000 M-1s built under license and which together with some 1,400 older M-60s and 2,500 M-113s constitute the core of that country’s conventional warfare capability. Moreover, if you looked up in the skies over Cairo you would see U.S. made F-16s. The Egyptian Air Force flies more than 200 of these aircraft along with a number of C-130 transports and eight E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft.
The presence of so much U.S. military hardware in Egypt is a good thing. Egypt is the second largest recipient of U.S. military assistance and has been since the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement in 1979. The provision of U.S. assistance and military hardware broke the stranglehold of the Soviet Union over the Egyptian military, thereby helping to cement that peace treaty. The fact that the Egyptian Army and Air Force is U.S. equipped gives Washington enormous leverage over those institutions as we and they try and figure a way forward in the current crisis.
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Why do you think the Russians want this change.
That’s reassuring....NOT.
“The Arsenal of Democracy”. First time I’ve heard that.
The Hawkeyes are some heavy duty stuff. Why on God’s green and COOLING earth would we sell them to a potentially volatile country like Egypt ?
I have not heard a peep from the Russians
As part of the 1979 peace treaty the United States gives them military aid.
Not a lot "WE" going on here.. Incest never looks good..
And they patrolling the streets.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2667771/posts?page=1
"Students" and "Tourists" meet Reagan by accident in Moscow.
In 2006, the Egyptian Russian University was opened in Badr City, Cairo, offering training in pharmacy and engineering
Right now Bibi and the boys in Tel Aviv are making plans to neutralize all that hardware.
I give the Israelis a heads up because they have experience using American Hardware in a combat situation
There’s Putin. All by accident, of course.
http://www.minatom.ru/en/news/9172_27.03.2008
600 students to 75,000 is a significant increase.
That information is 3 years old. I can tell by reading the URL link
Just a typical Russian Tourist / student that happened to bump into Reagan.
600 students to 75,000 is a significant increase. in just 3 years.
Students that patrol streets no less.
I rather have students patrol the streets than the Muslim Brotherhood.
I hope this doesn’t bite us in the rear. The gear we’re sending to them is heavy duty.
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