Red Chief wrote:In my view, Tunisia and Egypt were the first but not last victims of the World crisis. It must have been Greece or if EU had not granted the financial support. There are a lot of countries in the World, which cannot find own place between China and the West and don't have enough natural resources to survive in hard days.
On the other hand uncontroled birth rate makes it impossible to avoid hunger without import of food. Wise Den Xiaoping recognized self-sufficiency of food and moved in the both direction at the beginning of his reforms.
True! Stability of countries around the world will ultimately boil down to food security.
-- Fri Feb 04, 2011 11:38 am --
shafique wrote:Mahmoud04 wrote:suddenly everyone is an expert with ME, Muslims, and Egyptians matters...
Ignore the loons. They were just waiting for an anti-Islamic angle and couldn't contain themselves when a snippet of news was highlighted on Islamophobic blog. They are nothing if not predictable - some looting goes on and it is now Islam's fault.
For example Pamella Geller (a loon blogger, indeed holds the title 'looniest blogger ever') is supporting Mubarak:
The blogger who still loves Mubarak
Pamela Geller cheers for mass arrests, worries that Obama will throw our "ally" under the bus
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_ ... ller_egyptAnd as Salon highlights, these guys aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer - their hatred of Muslims seems to over-ride logic:
Geller continued to demonstrate the limits of her simplistic, binary understanding of the world. "I am all for political freedom," she wrote, except that she prefers Mubarak to, uh, political freedom.
Cheers,
Shafique
I think Shafique it is you who needs to be ignored, primarily for your paranoia!!! Firstly you link an article of an article, which is nothing. Can I now link something you have said and make that out to be a fact?
When American bloggers or political observers talk of Mubarak, they talk of an ally and when they say USA lost an ally they are not praising Mubarak but critiquing Obama. Now if America had to pressure Mubarak and call free and fair elections and cut aid a long time ago, it would've bolstered America's image in Egypt. The new government which will hopefully be a representative of the people of Egypt is bound to be skeptical American foreign policy and will probably be more open to relations with other countries. In that respect political observers are quite justified in their criticisms about the Obama administration. (this logic may not hold sway with someone who clearly is a fan of Jimmy Carter
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