What is Going on in Egypt?

[88Mariner]

Re: What is Going on in Egypt?

I'm wondering if all of the people who were complaining that Zuckerberg was elected as Time's person of the year are stfu'ing a bit after what has happened the last couple of weeks, as it has been in large part been fueled by social media.

Revolutions have occurred time and time again without the assistance of twitter or facebook.

The real difference here is that the egyptians were able to set this revolution in motion without having any legitimate alternatives in place. the speed of revolution which was afforded by digital and social networks may have come to bite them in the ass (now that i see the military has suspended the constitution).

I can still bitch about zuck being time's man of the year though, right? kinda beginning to think that facebook is like a mirror to the human soul, much like what zimbardo showed many years ago at stanford.

[88Mariner]

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next you are gonna tell me that suspending the constitution is just standard protocol when the military takes over.

That's random. I assume you've got nothing else of significance to say?

You know my position on this because i've made it well known on this forum: anarchy is the least preferable form of 'governance'. they would have been WAY better off had they not declared martial law (not technically anarchy, but i'm being lazy and playing loose with generalization here).

To answer your question, I don't really know what the protocol is for a military coup qua the national constitution. I would imagine it all depends on what the military generals wanted to do and if suspending it, their reason for that?

ASSUREDLY the military will cease their control soon. Right?

[res0nat0r]

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I'm wondering if all of the people who were complaining that Zuckerberg was elected as Time's person of the year are stfu'ing a bit after what has happened the last couple of weeks, as it has been in large part been fueled by social media.

[runningman]

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next you are gonna tell me that suspending the constitution is just standard protocol when the military takes over.

[88Mariner]

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No I wouldn't be ok with that either. I just want the US to mind its own business for once. Just once I would like to hear something happened in the world and it has nothing to do with the US. Thats what I want.

You want the US to mind its' own business so OTHER countries can step in. Basically, that's what you're insisting.

Hey, maybe the US can get out of South Korea too, For ONCE I just want the US to mind its own business.


Don't hear much about the US-Somalia connection. Or the US-Sudan connection. Or the US-North Korea connection. Perhaps you could focus your attention on those country's main papers for once?

[runningman]

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the military just suspended the constitution.

Well that sounds like good news.

[runningman]

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No I wouldn't be ok with that either. I just want the US to mind its own business for once. Just once I would like to hear something happened in the world and it has nothing to do with the US. Thats what I want.

[88Mariner]

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oh so the US is just doing a service then. I see

Let's break this down for a minute.

You condemn the United States for supplying Egypt with fairly above-average weapons over the past two decades.
You condemn the United States for sending foreign aid and ancillary assistance to Egypt over the same time period.

If it was not the United States who was doing this, and, instead, say, CHINA, for example, who was sending their own analogous (and copied) versions of our weapons, you'd be ok with this?

Oh wait, China is bad.

Instead, what if it was Russia/USSR who was supplying them? Still ok? Or not?

Ok, not them, what about UK? Oh wait, no not ok.

France? oh ..also not ok.


And so on down the line....


either you take arbitrary offense to a world superpower out-maneuvering other lesser countries, or you're just full of shit in thinking that Egypt was ever going to self-produce its own military equipment.

[runningman]

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oh so the US is just doing a service then. I see

[88Mariner]

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ya maybe Bob, or maybe the military is just keeping the status quo because where do you think all those tanks and weapons came from?

if not from one source, then another. or several others in fact.

[88Mariner]

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Maybe it's better to have your military running the country rather than someone else's military doing it by stealth though eh?

that's not always true.

and lettuce be golden grahams, if one country stopped foreign aid and assistance to a specific country, another would step into its place.



i once believed ron paul was correct on this issue, but i've come to find that he's heavily short-sighted. he talks much of blowback in terms of our foreign policy, but never considers the blowback from inaction.

[runningman]

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ya maybe Bob, or maybe the military is just keeping the status quo because where do you think all those tanks and weapons came from?

[88Mariner]

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Thanks for the first...but I could really do without hearing Mr. Fair-weather Political Opportunist capitalize on this so-called historic day (it was merely a week ago he was expressing support for the ousted dictator).

he wasn't there for the Iranians a few years ago. but now?

he's actually staying quite mum about this shit imo. he's letting the media talk him up as the savior of egyptian democracy. but in truth, i suspect he knows that the semblance of stability rests on a razors edge and can go quite sour very quickly. keeping mum, thus, prevents non-leftists from possibly jacking his quotes and using it against him.

Example:

Zero: "egypt is on a path to a new democracy thanks to my administrations hard work and commitment"
July 2012: "Mr. President, after the world watched as an egyptian officer and mubarak acolyte has continued the military control of egypt over the past year and a half, how do you reflect on your previous statement as taking ownership of the successful revolution and the dire situation that has continued these past months?"

i think you get the idea....

keeping cards close to his chest: being re-elected is more important than being praised for something he didn't do and which could haunt him down the road

[bobjuice]

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Maybe it's better to have your military running the country rather than someone else's military doing it by stealth though eh?

[runningman]

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ya it's called a "Military dictatorship" meaning military has taken over the country.