Egypt Protest; Major Rioting

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Anyone been hearing about this recently in Egypt? The Government decided to cut off the Internet to prevent protests and it resulted in a black lash. Egyptian cities like Cairo, the capital, have been a battle ground. If you haven't heard of this all you have to do is head to CNN.com.
 
Yeah, I've been following it on the BBC. It looks like the whole region has begun to destabilize.
 
Yeah, they want the President out, but the President resulted with "forcing the government to resign," but he would "remain in power as President." Which resulted into event more resentment from the people.
 
kYuKi said:
Yeah, they want the President out, but the President resulted with "forcing the government to resign," but he would "remain in power as President." Which resulted into event more resentment from the people.
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Power is a difficult thing to let go of.
 
kYuKi said:
Yeah, they want the President out, but the President resulted with "forcing the government to resign," but he would "remain in power as President." Which resulted into event more resentment from the people.
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The only thing that he could have said to appease the protesters was that he was going to tender his resignation.
 
I had heard that there was a mass firing of his staff.....can anyone back this up?
 
It seems the entire area is starting to topple these last few months. With all the successful riots and one country throwing out their corrupt leader, everyone is starting to fight back.

Good on them I say, no one deserves to be abused by their own leaders.
 
kYuKi said:
Anyone been hearing about this recently in Egypt? The Government decided to cut off the Internet to prevent protests and it resulted in a black lash.
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Usually happens when countries or groups of people are being oppressed, the burden of the current government system will probably crumble to pieces.
 
Side said:
That's crazy. Americans are canceling trips to Egypt....why is it so hard for people to get along and co-exist?
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Because Peace doesn't exist and never will. Also, the world wouldn't be what it is if we didn't have conflicts. Its not really that big ofa deal. I mean, sure, the president made a stupid mistake by cutting off the internet, but it's THEIR problem and not ours to really deal with anyway.
And I don't know if I would go over there right now either because of all the crap thats going on, someone could get killed over there if they went now...
 
Ladyhasaface said:
Because Peace doesn't exist and never will. Also, the world wouldn't be what it is if we didn't have conflicts. Its not really that big ofa deal. I mean, sure, the president made a stupid mistake by cutting off the internet, but it's THEIR problem and not ours to really deal with anyway.
And I don't know if I would go over there right now either because of all the crap thats going on, someone could get killed over there if they went now...
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It actually IS OUR PROBLEM. If their government changes, the peace treaty of Egypt and Israel is in the direct fire. We could have a Middle-East war and guess where we get most of our oil? If we or any other country makes a wrong move before this can settle down, there could be major repercussions short or long term.
 
kYuKi said:
It actually IS OUR PROBLEM. If their government changes, the peace treaty of Egypt and Israel is in the direct fire. We could have a Middle-East war and guess where we get most of our oil? If we or any other country makes a wrong move before this can settle down, there could be major repercussions short or long term.
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Well, oil has been a problem for decades! I mean, this really shouldn't involve our agreement with oil and what not because we're not apart of THEIR problem. And if it does? Then maybe we should stop depending on oil so much. Not like Oil has been doing much for our side of the planet in the past year anyway. And if the repercussions are long term, then perhaps America should be more prepared for stuff like that instead of always depending on one thing like we always love to do.
 
Ladyhasaface said:
Well, oil has been a problem for decades! I mean, this really shouldn't involve our agreement with oil and what not because we're not apart of THEIR problem. And if it does? Then maybe we should stop depending on oil so much. Not like Oil has been doing much for our side of the planet in the past year anyway. And if the repercussions are long term, then perhaps America should be more prepared for stuff like that instead of always depending on one thing like we always love to do.
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The Egyptian issue goes far beyond oil. The Mubarak regime has been a close ally to the United States since the Reagan administration. We've been dumping billions of dollars of, mainly military, aid to the country for the last three decades for two reasons. The first, the Mubarak regime was one of the few friends that Israel has in the region. The second, Egypt under Mubarak is a secular state and has been an integral part of the war on terror.

As of right now the United States is in a foreign relations conundrum. If the U.S, backs Mubarak, then there might be a chance of holding onto a key ally in the region...but we also run the risk of a massive black eye if Mubarak is toppled. If the US backs the protestors then they run the risk of alienating a close ally. So sure, oil does factor in one way or another. But to think that US interests in Egypt is purely that of oil, is to misunderstand the situation that the US foreign policy makers are currently dealing with.
 
It seems like stuff just got a bit more worse. Rioting is going all over in Muslim countries in the Middle-East. This could really be bad.
 
The president of Egypt is more like a dictator then anything. From what I heard he rigged two elections to make sure he stays president and is getting all new staff.
 
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThvBJMzmSZI[/ame]

This is the most inspiring video I've watched. It's amazing to see inside of what is happening, and what the people think of this.
 
Sexy Beast said:
The Egyptian issue goes far beyond oil. The Mubarak regime has been a close ally to the United States since the Reagan administration. We've been dumping billions of dollars of, mainly military, aid to the country for the last three decades for two reasons. The first, the Mubarak regime was one of the few friends that Israel has in the region. The second, Egypt under Mubarak is a secular state and has been an integral part of the war on terror.

As of right now the United States is in a foreign relations conundrum. If the U.S, backs Mubarak, then there might be a chance of holding onto a key ally in the region...but we also run the risk of a massive black eye if Mubarak is toppled. If the US backs the protestors then they run the risk of alienating a close ally. So sure, oil does factor in one way or another. But to think that US interests in Egypt is purely that of oil, is to misunderstand the situation that the US foreign policy makers are currently dealing with.
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But we're not backing the protester's, are we? If we just keep backing the regime, then there aren't a lot of problems...
 
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