Tunesia, Egyt and now Yemen: a domino effect in the Middle East?

@roger,

thumbs up double time

@revelette,

We are just treading water revelette to keep the thread alive during this phase of the domino effect in the Middle East about which we don't think we have anything useful or relevant to say as it is more or less incomprehensible and does not lend itself to any sort of interpretation which can be sensibly recorded in a short post.

On behalf of the others I would like to express my gratitude to roger and yourself for lending a hand. Keeping the thread on page 1 of New Posts is not easy with "that thats" and "much mores".

The really significant thing about the DE in the ME, as I said at the beginning, is how it impinges on house prices and, gulp, banker's bonuses.

But I did post on the matter yesterday and no response was forthcoming.

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@spendius,

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Keeping the thread on page 1 of New Posts is not easy with "that thats" and "much mores".

I know...I am taking a bow...you may applaud....

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@spendius,

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But I did post on the matter yesterday and no response was forthcoming.

I looked through, I didn't see it, but I probably just missed it through all the use of words debates.

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@spendius,

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On behalf of the others I would like to express my gratitude to roger and yourself for lending a hand. Keeping the thread on page 1 of New Posts is not easy with "that thats" and "much mores".

You could have ended it much earlier, Spendi, had you been straight up with Ionus. When you have a lad that has such great difficulty with even plain straightforward language, fanciful ruminations aren't what's called for.

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@JTT,

A criticism from someone who only sees in black and white is exactly as expected.....useless for the real world....tell us how many women had their breasts cut off again.....

When you have someone that has such great knowledge of war crimes but is reluctant to do anything but yell at the ether, teaching them English is going to be a long drawn out struggle .

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@JTT,

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When you have a lad that has such great difficulty with even plain straightforward language, fanciful ruminations aren't what's called for.

It has been made even worse because Ionus has no compunction about incessantly showing off his ignorance.

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@JTT,

It's the same with okie on the politics and economics threads; he continues to make ignorant statements over and over even as evidence to prove him wrong.

I just wonder what creates these kinds of people?

Here's okie's post on the "conservative" thread on Obama; trying to make the point that he's smarter than Obama.

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Absolutely. Great example last campaign was Obama and his silly and inane shouting of change and hope, with no substance, interrupted with more "Uhhhs', "Errrs," and that is an interesting question, blah blah, blah.""""" It was sickening. I am still totally mystified why the press trumped this cheap Chicago politician with a highly murky past as a great speaker after one lousy DNC speech???? If anyone ever has a good answer, let me know.

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@cicerone imposter,

I must admit ci. that I couldn't figure out what Mr Obama's election campaign was all about except let's give the Dems a try or Whitie's lost the plot.

I find the policy over Libya mystifiying.

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@spendius,

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except let's give the Dems a try

Considering that a major fuckup had been in there for eight years, that was indeed enough, Spendi.

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I find the policy over Libya mystifiying.

Caught not simply between hypocrisy and hypocrisy but muddled irretrievably deep in hypocrisy, any US "policy" is going to be mystifying and much more.

I've not been following it that closely but would the UK position be much different considering that they too are mired in the same swamp of hypocrisy?

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@JTT,

Hey, don't forget the French.

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@cicerone imposter,

Thanks, CI, and the French! but not limited to them and the other two previously mentioned.

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@JTT,

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Considering that a major fuckup had been in there for eight years, that was indeed enough, Spendi.

That statement makes an assumption I'm not prepared to make.

And Libya is too mystifying for me to come to any conclusion on the matter.

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@spendius,

spendi, Too mystifying? Don't you read or listen to the media? They've been covering almost every angle of this so-called crisis. There's more information on Libya than almost anything else for the past month - at the very least.

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@spendius,

Okay, let me tone it down a wee bit so that you can.

Considering that a major screwup had been in there for eight years, that was indeed enough, Spendi.

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@cicerone imposter,

Now we're using drones in Libya.

Obama has OK'd use of drones in Libya

What happened to "Days, not weeks"???

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@Irishk,

Obama no longer knows when he lies or not.

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@cicerone imposter,

Yesterday, Alarabiya.net reported that the war in Libya is costing $100M per day. That can't be right, can it?

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/03/23/142714.html

Edited to add link.

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@Irishk,

This is the best I could find on the net.

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Monday, April 11, 2011
Cost of Libya war for US at $608 million: Pentagon

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The cost of the air war in Libya for the US military has reached $608 million, a US defense official said Monday.

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@cicerone imposter,

That doesn't sound right, either. I think it's probably somewhere in between.

I also read that the allies might be pushing for a new resolution that broadens the scope to include regime change. That sounds, to me, like ground forces may be in our future. When that happens, $100M/day will be accurate.

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