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Did CA GOPer Chuck DeVore -- yes, Chuck DeVore -- beat the CIA to predicting Egypt crisis?
SFGate: Politics Blog ^
| 2/15/11
| Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Posted on 02/15/2011 4:48:25 PM PST by SmithL
California U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein recently criticized the intelligence community for failing to anticipate Egypt's political upheaval -- but looks like the CIA types should have been reading Chuck DeVore.
That's right: the California GOP former U.S. Senate candidate published an analysis back in January warning Egypt was on "the brink of a chaotic transition of power" -- weeks before anyone had even taken to the streets of Cairo.
The former Irvine Assemblyman raised his concerns on the issue of Egypt's future in a Jan. 11 piece in Investors' Business Daily entitled "A Restive Egypt Faces Succession; Islamacists May Make a Bid for Power."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: chuckdevore; egypt
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posted on
02/15/2011 4:48:30 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
"Devore or Boxer; Boxer or Devore. Hmmm... I think I'll go with Boxer."
I can only laugh at my fellow Californians.
Laugh or I'll start crying again.
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posted on
02/15/2011 4:54:19 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
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posted on
02/15/2011 5:03:26 PM PST
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: SmithL
Officially, I predicted, on 9/28/2001, in a piece published on the web, that, post 9/11, Egypt and the other dictators and monarchs in the Middle East had a choice - use the power they still had then to be their own agents of change and democratic reform, or they would in time create the internal conditions for having their power taken from them by Islamists or revolutionaries. From my point of view then, 9/28/2001, the question was not whether or not Egypt (and others) would go through the political turmoil they are now, but when.
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posted on
02/15/2011 5:17:25 PM PST
by
Wuli
To: SmithL
I love DeVore, but anyone can say the same of all of the countries on the Arab Street. They are run by strongmen who treat their people like garbage. The DeVore piece just looks like he called something that would have eventually happened with the age of Mubarek.
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posted on
02/15/2011 5:44:24 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: SmithL
I almost cry when I think of what the DeVore-Boxer debates would have looked like, and knowing that some IDIOTs got behind FioRINO instead with $$ and support, telling us that she was the only one who could beat Boxer. That sure worked out well.
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posted on
02/15/2011 6:17:55 PM PST
by
pissant
((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
To: pissant
I almost cry when I think of what the DeVore-Boxer debates would have looked like, and knowing that some IDIOTs got behind FioRINO instead with $$ and support, telling us that she was the only one who could beat Boxer. That sure worked out well. Of course! These are the same people that say we need a woman to defeat a woman, or a Black to defeat a Black. Remember all the people pushing Condoleezza Rice - "a Black and a Woman - she'll be unbeatable!" /sarc
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posted on
02/16/2011 1:46:57 AM PST
by
Cowboy Bob
(Obama has demonstrated to the world the failure of Affirmative Action)
To: Cowboy Bob
Dickie Morris wrote a book called Hillary v. Condi, didn’t he?
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posted on
02/16/2011 1:54:15 AM PST
by
pissant
((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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