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| Is Yemen the next Somalia? |
| 2011-09-20 |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #11 In the future, we are all going to be Somalia for 15 minutes. The only question is whether we take turns or do it all at once. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-09-20 23:02 |
| #10 Egypt imports half its food. Any supply disruption and 100 million people start to go hungry. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-09-20 22:52 |
| #9 grom, they may be $20 B short of buying food for the country, but as in North Korea, the army will be the last to go hungry. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-09-20 18:45 |
| #8 What does Venkman think? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-20 17:07 |
| #7 Spengler? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-09-20 15:33 |
| #6 Earth to Pappy, they're 20 billion $ a year short for buying food. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-09-20 14:12 |
| #5 There won't be a collapse, because the present 'revolution' really wasn't a fall of the government per se, merely who was in charge. The Eyptian military hasn't decamped. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-09-20 13:52 |
| #4 Yes I will. Maybe Koreans can starve without government breaking down---Arabs can't. (Any Arab government is a house of cards anyway). |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-09-20 13:35 |
| #3 Egypt is. You won't see a collapse of the central government as in Somalia. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-09-20 09:45 |
| #2 Yemen could become a failed state, threatening Saudi Arabia's soft underbelly and thus western oil and gas supplies. The journo needs to buy a map. Somalia on one side of the Red Sea and it's approaches and Yemen on the other side will effectively close the Suez Canal. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2011-09-20 09:05 |
| #1 Nope. Egypt is. |
| Posted by: gr(o)mgoru 2011-09-20 07:31 |