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To: Olog-hai

My fear is this force gets co-opted by the very Islamist extremists its instituted to fight.


3 posted on 02/22/2015 11:58:16 PM PST by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Kozak

The egyptian military has a good record of being secular....this is hopeful.


4 posted on 02/23/2015 1:08:49 AM PST by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: Kozak

Could, my guess el Sissi will be thinking of a secular “caliphate” along the lines of the failed UAR. I could see Turkey toying with the idea of a religious caliphate. ISIS is laying the the groundwork, but the Turks could run over them. And it was their land for centuries.


15 posted on 02/23/2015 4:42:24 PM PST by SJackson (“ISIS is now going to regret this … because King Abdullah is not Barack Obama, Rep. Duncan Hunter)
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