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2012-07-02 Africa North

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Posted by Steve White 2012-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 It was a sick joke to anybody versed in Arab history all along.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-07-02 03:31|| 2012-07-02 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 One man's 'strikingly prescienct' is a Rantburg reader's 'blatantly obvious'

Posted by Whiper Huperese9925 2012-07-02 03:42|| 2012-07-02 03:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Some of us -- including me, I must admit -- did not see so clearly. But sadly, the evidence is clear.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-07-02 07:14|| 2012-07-02 07:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Few people, myself included, "see clearly" what is very carefully disguised.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-07-02 07:54|| 2012-07-02 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 This Arab Spring, should really be called an Islamist Spring.

Whatever one calls it, the action merely moved the Islamist take over forward a few years.

For example, without the freedom demos in Egypt, the Islamist would have taken over in 2013 after Mubarak's death rather than in 2012.

Posted by lord garth 2012-07-02 08:08|| 2012-07-02 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Glad to see the "Rantburg Prediction Pool" is still churning out accurate predictions.

I see more anarchy, famine and bloodshed in the next year for the "Arab Spring". Anyone else throwing into the pool?

Posted by DarthVader 2012-07-02 11:17|| 2012-07-02 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Read, "Why Nations Fail." These countries fall into the failed nations slot. They will not make the fundamental changes required to succeed. They will just have to do their Insh'allah thing till they get tired of falling on their faces. No use throwing good money after bad. It is up to them and not us to encourage positive change.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2012-07-02 12:49|| 2012-07-02 12:49|| Front Page Top

#8 This is why we should not give them ANY aid or money or support. I'd even say that we should blockade and interdict the movement of ALL resources in and out of these countries until they dissolve and are ready to join the Human race.

Posted by Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2012-07-02 13:33|| 2012-07-02 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Darth, I'll see that. Have not yet hit where I was thinking. No gas, Suez is still open, so forth.

And to be as fairly criticle as I can, and not to say the US should or could do anything here, it does not really help when this administration claims credit for this with the Cairo speech, then bumbles a dictator replacement, backdoor negotiates a hostage situation, travels outside of a UN warrent with what may look like a NATO/Europe attack upon a unprepared ally Ghadaffi yet a fickless approach to Assad. Not sure what is going on behind the scenes but in public is looks like a total cluster of a US policy, to the point the True Believes should be getting a third bucket of pissed off at Obama or turning in their creds.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-07-02 13:51|| 2012-07-02 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Such beautiful simplicity in the seasons of Dar Al Islam -- an ever-so-brief Spring immediately followed by a thousand-year Winter.

Posted by Shinter Javirong9154 2012-07-02 14:54|| 2012-07-02 14:54|| Front Page Top

#11 They are intent, he added, on returning to Britain to launch attacks here.

One sick joke is that the UK government will probably let them back into the country.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-07-02 15:29|| 2012-07-02 15:29|| Front Page Top

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