I remember that there was a great wringing of hands when this happened, but few dared step forward and openly condemn the Taliban for their actions.
Posted on 01/28/2011 1:39:04 PM PST by therightliveswithus
The BBC is reporting that Egyptian Army tanks have allegedly surrounded the embassies of the United States and United Kingdom. This comes after Israel evacuated its entire embassy staff via helicopter. This is coming in through their live blog, and further details appear scarce. The BBC is quoting an al-Jazeera cable:
2125: Tanks have surrounded the US and British embassies in Cairo, Al-Jazeera reports.
This could be a huge, huge problem. This is similar to 1979 when the Islamic rebels took the US Embassy and held hostages for 444 days.
Even if you get by kinda easy because of your vehicles, you will be living in a society with a mass of very angry and messed up people. As I recall, we had heating limits too.
Back in the day, I was a teenager and just learned to drive when Carter did this to the US. My job during that time after school was to help mom keep everyone’s cars with gas. We would pick up dad’s car at the navy base and fill it up (hours in line) and then take it back to his place of work. Then go get my brother’s car at his job and fill it up another day then do mom’s car... We spent most of our time filling up family cars. And back then we had polite Americans-Americans waiting for hours in those lines.
It happened often that the gas station would run out of gas before all the cars in line were served and those people would have to try and find another gas station and wait in line all over again. I think we would probably have a lot of violence with today’s population.
We also had to get gas tank locks on our caps so people would not steal our gas while parked in public places. Theives would drain the gas from your car while it was parked overnight in front of your house or while you were in the grocery store.
Actually, if this happens again, someone could make some money filling up cars for people while they work! People would pay a lot to not have to suffer through those lines! It made people miss work whenever they had to fill up their cars and it was no fun spending those extra hours on that task. It was an economic nightmare for most families. And those who could not afford gas, stole it.
People need to learn a painful and lasting lesson. They’ve already forgotten the lessons of the Carter years. And I think we could do with a society of angry and ‘messed up’ people, because frankly many liberals will perish in such a society. Failing to see how any of this is negative.
Yup, obastard is definitely on board with the overthrow of Mubarak. Of course, the end result will be another muslism theocracy. Some might be tempted to say obastard is too stupid to see this. IMHO, they’re wrong.
It’s what he wants.
I remember that there was a great wringing of hands when this happened, but few dared step forward and openly condemn the Taliban for their actions.
sae inputs......same outputs
“I’m not sure how to assess the word, “cool” in this situation. Is it possible for God’s plan to be “uncool?””
“Cool” as in fascinating, exciting, neat.
“Uncool” as scary as heck, Christian or no. I suspect, even if one accept the Rapture (I am luke warm, at best, on that theology, even as a Biblical literalist) the prelude to the same will be very unpleasant.
I was in the Air Force.
The article you link to references State Department.
We all know the DOS view themselves as “honest brokers” between US interests and the host nation’s interests.
Sometimes the DOS actually views themselves as advocates for the host nation and work against US interests, which seems to be the case here.
Good arrangement, supported US national security interests and with US kit being assembed in Egypt and Turkey, we have the ability to shut-off the logistics and supplies and they factories shut-down, thereby “grounding” the Egyptian Army. . .fast.
Ask any tanker from the US Army and they will tell you tanks require much support, and with US support shut-off, the tanks become rust.
Access, influence, these are the reasons we do our foreign military sales (FMS). These are wonderful tools for a president, but with The Messiah, those tools are not being used effectively.
The Egyptian Army has been working with and training with the US Army, and a major part of that training has been to incorporate US perspectives when it comes to the military’s role in civilian affairs—namely, to stand back, mostly, not to do the coup thing. Seems to have been well received by the Egyptian Army and Egyptian Air Force.
I know the State Department’s “citizens of the world” stab the US in the back all the time. They are communists. They call it treason.
These people involved in overturing the Egyptian government should stand trial as they are going not only responsible for any ensuing wars arising out of their anti-American, pro-Muslim activism, is likely their actions will crash our economy too.
I am sick of these freak globalists.
Them Bradleys got really largish main guns, they do.
Picture #2 is a target-friendly environment.
Those pictures are not what accompanied the original article two or three days ago, much water under the bridge since than.
Thank you for pointing that out though.
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