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Just succumb to the will of the Great Satan!
Originally posted by badgerprints
People need to look further back in mideast history.
No matter who is in charge or who hates who in Egypt, all guns eventually point towards Israel.
Those F-16's will be used eventually.
Six Days of War by Michael Oren would be a great place to start reading if you really want to understand the middle east military mindset.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Well, now we can see why a Coup is not a Coup when political needs demand it's not. This was among the top political needs.
I wonder whose district benefits the most from the production of F-16's? Or are these ones coming off the Turkish production lines? Now I hope THAT isn't the case, since Turkey hacked and cracked the IFF to allow for engagement of Israeli warplanes. They promised not to give the hacked boxes out to other nations though, so of course I trust them completely.
What a mess. Just what the region needs ...more high tech weapons systems set to go with full offense capability.edit on 11-7-2013 by Wrabbit2000 because: (no reason given)
Well, now we can see why a Coup is not a Coup when political needs demand it's not. This was among the top political needs.
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Well, now we can see why a Coup is not a Coup when political needs demand it's not. This was among the top political needs.
I don't get this at all. Didn't the Muslim Brotherhood swear to destroy Israel? Which side is the U.S. government on?
Originally posted by neo96
I Am sick of this which is why I don't support selling any US weapon systems abroad not one.
Originally posted by neo96
What the hell is the administration thinking?
What?
It's bad enough we supported Mubarak, damn right disgusting of the US backing of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
More toys for wait for it of whoever comes out on top in Egypt. Ya know my dearly elected 'leaders' of the current US administration.
Please get your heads out of your collective rear ends, and stop arming EVERYONE in the ME.
I Am sick of this which is why I don't support selling any US weapon systems abroad not one.
Rather stupid to give people who have proven themselves to be out for only themselves kinda like the US is.
My Dear elected US government administration I am sorry that you all are under the delusions of you can buy 'friends'.
Yours truly an American with nothing but contempt for the current governments Lackadaisical foreign policy
Hell it's bad enough screwing up our own country stop with the stupid globalist agenda.
Best wish's Egyptians.
www.bbc.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)edit on 11-7-2013 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by jiggerj
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Well, now we can see why a Coup is not a Coup when political needs demand it's not. This was among the top political needs.
I don't get this at all. Didn't the Muslim Brotherhood swear to destroy Israel?
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by frazzle
Watching the news and being situationally aware would be a citation for that one. You apparently missed the over-run and storming of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo by MB supporters and the street protests more frequently than can be called anything like uncommon or strange, calling for death to Israel.
The Muslim Brotherhood is well known allies to Hamas in Gaza. (You know, the ones firing live Missiles into Israeli towns on a regular basis?) SO much so that days ago, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank had one of it's officials publicly state how nice it would be if Hamas was overthrown and forcefully removed from power in Gaza to follow their benefactors in Cairo.
You don't watch much, for all the questions you demand of people, huh? I mean some of this asked is ..well...down to whether you even pay attention to events??
You don't watch much, for all the questions you demand of people, huh? I mean some of this asked is ..well...down to whether you even pay attention to events??
Just Egypt and the delivery of modern jet fighter/bombers into the hands of a Government still VERY much in flux and transition and MB "forces" still camping outside major Government centers while making their presence painfully well known across Cairo.
arabist.net...
the military asserts its corporate autonomy by maintaining a “sense of organic unity and consciousness” that set itself apart from lay institutions. Military political autonomy, on the other hand, refers to the military’s aversion towards or even defiance of civilian control. While it is part of the state, the military often acts as if it were above and beyond the constitutional authority of the government. The degree of political autonomy is a measure of the military’s determination to strip civilians of their political prerogatives and claim these for itself. As the armed forces accumulate powers, they become increasingly protective of their gains. The more valuable and entrenched their interests are, the more vigorously they will resist the transfer of control over to democratically elected officials and state institutions.
For instance, Vali Nasr, who served as senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke when he was ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan, said this of Obama’s Afghan policies: “Their primary concern was how any action in Afghanistan or the Middle East would play on the nightly news, or which talking point it would give the Republicans. The Obama administration’s reputation for competence on foreign policy has less to do with its accomplishments in Afghanistan or the Middle East than with how U.S. actions in that region have been reshaped to accommodate partisan political concerns.”