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Originally Posted by tabs
welcome to the ME...
Egypt is not Iran...Egypt was conquered by Alexander and ruled by the Greek Ptolemies with Cleopatra being the last of the line. Then it was 400 years of Roman rule...So Egypt has a long tradition of Western influence.
Secondly and here is a big difference..Iran fell to an Islamic theocratic rule during the Cold War. At the time the USA was blind sided because we were focused on Communist led revolts. Whoever thought of such a thing as an Islamic takeover??? The difference and dynamic is that the US response isn't so inflexible for lack of a better term.
Also with Democracy and freedom being offered it under cuts the appeal of fundamentalism as a means of governance. Now there is a viable alternative.
Rememer it was the young folk of Iran who revolted after the fraudalent election and it is the young in Egypt who want a change...These people do not want the ways of the 14Th century they want to be part of the 21St century...
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FIRST of all, the LAST thing we need is "You"!
You're an extremist. You are WAY WAY WAY more right-wing than the general public of the United States! You are totally against the middle class of this country; If you had your way, I am certain that you would turn the United States into India. A place were the average person works for a few cents per day, while a few VERY RICH people become incredibly rich! You want the street itself to have NO maintenace whatsoever. In India, your poop goes down the toilet...and since there is NO local government to speak of...It flows out to a groove in the ground in front of your house. This is what Tabs wants for EVERY home in the United States! Tabs wants your poop flowing down the street. Tabs is against the government maintaining the streets. He's against public education- If this clown was in charge, there would be NO public education! If Tabs had his way, you would be forced to either: 1. home school your kids, or 2. pay for private education. Have you seen the cost of this lately? It is like $4000 per year!
Tabs wants to get rid of all government. All these old ladies who live off social security, carefully counting their pennies...Tabs says "Throw them on the street!" You see, Tabs is sick and tired of paying....TAXES! He's a wealthy guy now, enjoys driving his Porsches,and he's bothered by the fact that some of his tax dollars are supporting "dead beats!"
Well, I can definitely agree with him on this one! I don't know why the "section 8" system is allowing full-grown healthy adult males to live in subsidized housing without asking them to work in exchange. Is there no county work farm? On the side I work for a company that owns apartments; I do maintenance work, and an apartment building across the street from mine is FULL of Section 8 CRAP; We've had no end of trouble with these people, and we try to have showings of our property there during the morning, because all the "monkeys" will be out in the parking lot talking extremely loud in the evening, and it tends to turn our potential tenants away!
So I can see Tabs points on some things, but he's still just an extremist! He's just like the Ayatolla Khomeini, he's just like Osama Bin Ladin; An extremist. A filth, a butt, something to discard. Nobody needs this guy-
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