Middle East Mayhem

build an indoor ski resort with the 1.3 billion we give him each year, that will make everyone happy

l believe he said some bs like l would step down BUT the country is in too much turmoil hence he wont be leaving just yet

I agree with the voices saying that egypt is not algeria. That being said, mubarak can't stand alone facing protests forever. Let's see what friday brings.

i think its the crazy RADICAL Islam's fault.

im not hating on muslims or any thing, just the extremists

1.3 billion, it's actually 1.5 billion, and 1.3 billion is in arms(you know us, gun dealers to the world, lords of war), so there isn't much left over for the snow dome...really, it doesn't look good for us anyway it goes...say hello to $5/gallon gas!

egypt dont have no oil.

stuff over there is gonna hit the fan really hard...really soon. Alot of people are gonna die from that dictator

The army is stepping in now. It should be interesting.

I heard they cut off internet there...HORRIBLE

Yeah, it was all pretty peaceful until someone could send out a tweet about how drunk they were. 

In all seriousness, this shits going to get way bad.  I'm glad I live 2 miles from work and have an ocean between us.

It's gonna get crazier every day...and those are some sweet helmets, I'd wear all of them.

if that many are in revolt...there must be a good reason. from what i hear he basically been in power forever and messed up everything...

im all for democracy and everything and if a revolt is what needs to happen then thats all good, but what in concerned about is who is gonna come in to power after the revolt. Because the nations gonna get pretty weak and the radicals could make a move, and if that happens then oil is gonna sky rocket

Originally posted by CheckOnTrips

that right there is pure gold.  nice. 

gas better not be going up to 5 bucks. its crazy expensive in Canada already

Giftedhands, this is not what i anticipated this thread to be like. 

Look at what the shtook is going on over there.

All I can say is wow to some of the responses. Believe me I laughed with some of them but I hope people realize the magnitude of this situation. This is a critical moment for not only Egypt but particularly the US and Israel as well. Egypt has an incredibly powerful army (particularly relative to it's size) because that's how we (the US) wanted them to be. Now a major stabilizing force in the middle east will likely go in the opposite direction. And that makes for a bad situation for both sides.

Egypt's top sources of revenue are Tourism (and no Vector did not steal the pyramids) and the canal (not the one in Panama). The Brotherhood and similar groups have a single focus. I hate to break it to you it's not a free market or democracy. And i'm afraid that will be even more evident to our 3D-TV facing eyes and our headphone covered ears. $5 gas will be the least of our worries in the long run.

You ever seen that movie "Idiocracy"?

No wonder we're ranked near the bottom on the world education list. "We're number 30, we're number 30...", proudly chant the Americans.

Originally posted by SoCalRyder All I can say is wow to some of the responses. Believe me I laughed with some of them but I hope people realize the magnitude of this situation. This is a critical moment for not only Egypt but particularly the US and Israel as well. Egypt has an incredibly powerful army (particularly relative to it's size) because that's how we (the US) wanted them to be. Now a major stabilizing force in the middle east will likely go in the opposite direction. And that makes for a bad situation for both sides. Egypt's top sources of revenue are Tourism (and no Vector did not steal the pyramids) and the canal (not the one in Panama). The Brotherhood and similar groups have a single focus. I hate to break it to you it's not a free market or democracy. And i'm afraid that will be even more evident to our 3D-TV facing eyes and our headphone covered ears. $5 gas will be the least of our worries in the long run. You ever seen that movie "Idiocracy"? No wonder we're ranked near the bottom on the world education list. "We're number 30, we're number 30...", proudly chant the Americans.

The understated brilliance of Idiocracy is lost on most people. 

The situation in Egypt is going to be an interesting one as the potential for further destabilization of the region is extreme.  Combine that with our positions with Isreal and Iran eroding daily. 

This thing in Egypt is making the stock market go crazy for the past week....haha

americans here do not understand the situation in egypt..the people there live on a daily bread supply, unemployment is a major concern for the entire country..the revolt is being led by youth in egypt because they go to college, men are forced to serve in the military and once released from service, they enter a country that has no jobs available..

people worldwide do not understand the hardships the egyptian people have suffered under mubarak..the government has a long history of a brutal secret police force that respects NO civil rights..hundreds if not thousands of people have been illegally detained with no charges against them..in mubaraks last "free" election, the man running against him was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in jail..no trial or chance to explain himself, he was simply arrested and detained because he spoke out against mubarak.

the american government supports mubarak because he was able to hold peace between isreal and egypt, and the only reason he did that was to continue receiving aid from the US..

mubarak was an army man, a man of not any significant wealth until he took over the country..in the 30 years he was president, he amounted $30 billion to his name..how was a man worth nothing able to gain so much wealth? extreme corruption!

something americans know little about is the life of the coptic people under mubarak..copts are egyptian christians whose ancestry dates back to the dawn of christianity..coptic people are the true descendants of the ancient egyptians..they have been persecuted since the arabs took control of egypt, and under mubaraks rule, nothing was done to stop these persecutions..

on the night of new years there was a coptic service being held at saints church in alexandria egypt, a few minutes into the new year there was an explosion outside the church that killed 22 young coptic people..mubarak released a statement saying they will look into these attacks, but that in the same speech he dismissed the acts as an outside form of terrorism..in other words he simply blamed muslims from another country attacking coptic people in an attempt to disrupt egyptians foundation..

this narrow-minded approach is what has led egypt to what it is today..the US has given egypt a lot of money in hopes that it would remain the stable centerpiece in the middle east, under mubarak..think about it, how much public interest was there in the tunisia uprising? how many times had president obama addressed the situation?

then compare that to egypt..nearly every day of the uprising there is another white house rep speaking about the situation, obama himself has spoken twice on the issue, twice in the last 12 days..this revolution is being led by the youth of egypt, copts and muslims, all in a hope for a better life..americans need to open their eyes and look at the broad picture..

if anyone thinks internet shut down and the lot could never happen here, think again..obama enacted a bill allowing the US government power to monitor and possibly suspend internet activity if they felt the need..

revolvting is fun

Originally posted by seacow234 JUST KIDDING. army probably sucks http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201126145542683316.html

careful, this could get ya on a list

Turmoil that hopefully settles without major casualties.