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2011-02-04 International-UN-NGOs

Tipping point: Dawning of freedom or new Mideast Dark Age?

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Posted by ryuge 2011-02-04 09:51|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Yes, but what's the latest on Charlie Sheen?

Posted by Jack Salami 2011-02-04 10:17|| 2011-02-04 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Given their history... I would say this is a reshuffling of the deck chairs.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-04 10:55|| 2011-02-04 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm gonna go with B. Dark ages -- what do I win?

Posted by Hellfish 2011-02-04 11:24|| 2011-02-04 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 New Dark age?

Did they ever leave the old one?

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-02-04 11:31|| 2011-02-04 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 "Step 4. Turn the landing lights on. If you don't like what you see, turn them off again."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-02-04 12:28|| 2011-02-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Tipping point: Dawning of freedom or new ~~Mideast~~ Global Dark Age?

Posted by AzCat 2011-02-04 12:28|| 2011-02-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Color me skeptical. I'm going with Dark Ages. There are too many rats gnawing at the underside of the ship. I would like if there was a dawning of freedom for the Mideast. Our Constitution is there for anyone who might like to adopt it. So far not many takers.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-04 12:28|| 2011-02-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 They have a choice - break the cycle and try to set up a free nation, or simply hand the whip to a new master, and help him put on the jackboots they're going to end up licking.

Iran chose the latter years ago and is suffering even now. Iraq has tried to do the former and appears to be recovering well enough.

It all depends on if Egypt has enough sane people to hold of the enslavers - the Islamists like the MB and their collectivist supporters (part of our state department, unfortunately).

Posted by OldSpook 2011-02-04 13:12|| 2011-02-04 13:12|| Front Page Top

#9 "Spengler" on unrest in Egypt: Egypt is wallowing in backwardness, not because the Mubarak regime has suppressed the creative energies of the people, but because the people themselves cling to the most oppressive practices of traditional society [i.e. female genital mutilation]. And countries can only languish in backwardness so long before some event makes their position untenable... It wasn't the financial crisis that undermined dysfunctional Arab states, but Asian prosperity. The Arab poor have been priced out of world markets. There is no solution to Egypt's problems within the horizon of popular expectations. Whether the regime survives or a new one replaces it, the outcome will be a disaster of, well, biblical proportions.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-04 15:22|| 2011-02-04 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 OS:Iran chose the latter years ago and is suffering even now. Iraq has tried to do the former and appears to be recovering well enough.

I hope Iraq continues to do well. Iran and the mullahs are like a cancer in the mideast. Their intentions are expansionist and truly evil.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-04 16:44|| 2011-02-04 16:44|| Front Page Top

#11 As the second largest recipient of US aid, primarily military, the Egyptians should think long and hard over the choices they face. There are calls to end all foreign aid in lieu of our own economic problems and decline in prosperity. And if they choose anything less than adopting our constitution, it will be a global dark age with the mad mullahs drunk on the blood of the infidels and unbelievers.

Posted by Gerthudion Unump7993 2011-02-04 22:04|| 2011-02-04 22:04|| Front Page Top

#12 As the second largest recipient of US aid, primarily military, the Egyptians should think long and hard over the choices they face.

I believe the entire U.S. aid package equals about 1% of the Egyptian economy, Gerthudion Unump7993.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-02-04 23:00|| 2011-02-04 23:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I split the difference. Most are returning to the dark ages but a few might make it. Tunisia for example.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2011-02-04 23:26|| 2011-02-04 23:26|| Front Page Top

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