should we pay for egypt still

[dellinger63]

This was an aftershock from a anti-muslim film trailer, not a coup.

The President says we don't support any individual group. All I ask is who have we been sending the billions to?

Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood or the military who basically facilitated the coup.

Doesn't matter who we vocally support, who's getting the greenbacks?

[joeydb]

Depends on whether you still want the Suez Canal open. There would be a hell of a spike in the price of a lot of global shipping if that's closed, with the costs passed on (as they always are) to us consumers.

[rpncaine]

Plus most of the money we give to the military goes to buy US weapons. So let's punish our suppliers and let them buy from the Russians cause you know they will just move their business elsewhere.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by rpncaine

Plus most of the money we give to the military goes to buy US weapons. So let's punish our suppliers and let them buy from the Russians cause you know they will just move their business elsewhere.

Where do you suppose they'll get the money to buy Russian weapons?
You know if we cut them off?

Much more likely they'd turn to China than Russia anyway. Besides the average Egyptian favors China at 3-1 over the U.S.

[jms62]

Gotta keep feeding the war machine Trillions of dollars for the big wigs and those in our government that are investors or future employees. We will keep doing it until someone eventually gets serious and starts lobbing nukes which of course will be met with retaliation and the end of the game. Makes me glad that I am at the half mile pole.

[rpncaine]

So true....I would have to say I think I'm at the quarter pole myself.
I don't think "lobbing" is what will happen. One of these crazy fanatics out there will get ahold of a nuke and set it off in NYC or some other major city and all hell will break loose.

All in the name of some *&^%$ deity.

[dellinger63]

One side wants sharia law that gives women the same rights as a stray dog, the other side wants a more secular nation and shows it by throwing small children off buildings and mowing down protesters.

Who are we going to buddy up with, the rabid dog or the rabid skunk?

I've said before the only likely way Egypt and other socially-retarded countries like it will ever change is by empowering their women. How we do it in countries where men kill their daughters and wives out of some false sense of honor is the great mystery.

[joeydb]

Originally Posted by rpncaine

So true....I would have to say I think I'm at the quarter pole myself.
I don't think "lobbing" is what will happen. One of these crazy fanatics out there will get ahold of a nuke and set it off in NYC or some other major city and all hell will break loose.

All in the name of some *&^%$ deity.

If God forbid that did happen to New York, odds are good that our current president would apologize to the rest of the world for it somehow being our fault.