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Egyptian President Overthrown, Constitution Suspended
Al Jazeera and other publications are reporting that Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has been overthrown by the country's army. General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, head of the Egyptian armed forces, said in a televised announcement that Morsi had been removed from power, the Constitution had been suspended, and Adli al-Mansour, leader of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, had been appointed to lead the country until elections can be held. "Sisi called for presidential and parliamentary elections, a panel to review the constitution and a national reconciliation committee that would include youth movements. He said the roadmap had been agreed by a range of political groups." According to the BBC's report, "General Sisi said on state TV that the armed forces could not stay silent and blind to the call of the Egyptian masses," and "The army is currently involved in a show of force, fanning out across Cairo and taking control of the capital."
Step 1) Spy on your citizens ....
Step 2)
Step 3) Profit!
since we don't seem to be using right now I don't see any problem.
They also danced better.
"Egypt could again one day stand with Turkey (for all its troubles) and Jordan as examples of modern, stable states among the insane theocracies that surround them."
Man, I sure hope North Carolina can do this too.
Yeah, I can't imagine what would have happened if the founding fathers' first attempt at a constitution had been deemed a failure and replaced. The world would be a totally different place.
I think the whole conquering / slavery thing was kind of a negative. You're probably not going to get a lot of support for that approach.
It worked just fine for the USA. And now they're the moral and benevolent world police.
There were laser pointers.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
What a sad, lonely life you must lead.
Many of those 'slaves' turned out to be reasonably well paid workers with healthcare.
seemed the lesser danger, and to make himself more attractive he made a bunch of promises ... Then he broke his promises.
I'm glad we don't tolerate that kind of crap in the good old US of A!
Don't be naive. Short of installing Obama as the ruler of Egypt, we can hardly get any less involved in what's going on there.
Somehow I don't think "installing Obama as the ruler of Egypt" is the absolute least involved the U.S. could get.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
Because we don't only know things that we personally experience. For example, I have never seen an elephant and yet I know they are small, furry and good swimmers. I read it in a book.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Can females drive in North Carolina?
After going to college for 4 years in North Carolina, I'm pretty confident that no one in that state can drive.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil