All these revolts and changes in the Middle East. How long do you think it'll be before the new leaders see the ones they kicked out were nothing but paid puppets. Then they will ask, why did the USA not help us set up a democracy?
Mideast nations brace for Egypt spillover - World news - Mideast/N. Africa - msnbc.com
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Bahrain is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet and the most politically divided in the Gulf. Majority Shiites have long alleged they face second-class status under the Sunni rulers. Last summer, the tiny nation was torn by clashes and riots after a wave of arrests against perceived Shiite dissidents.
On Friday — just hours before Mubarak stepped down — Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa granted each Bahraini family the equivalent of nearly $2,700 in an apparent bid to calm tensions.
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Jordan
The nation's new prime minister, Marouf Bakhit, promised earlier this week to continue political reforms demanded by protesters who forced King Abdullah II to reshuffle the cabinet. Since the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, their leftist allies and other protesters have demanded constitutional amendments to curb Abdullah's power in naming prime ministers and instead allow Jordanians to elect them by popular vote
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Yemen
President Ali Abdullah Saleh — a key U.S. ally in office for more than three decades — bowed to pressure from protesters and announced he would not seek re-election in 2013 and would not try to pass power to his son. The opposition has yet to respond to his call to join him in a unity government. Saleh, a key U.S. ally against al Qaida, met with his top defense, political and security officials Friday night to discuss a plan to raise salaries for civil servants and the military — a second planned wage increase since last month, when Saleh planned a raise of about $47.
The move suggests that Saleh, a shrewd political survivor eyeing spreading unrest in the Arab world, is trying to ensure his forces would remain loyal in case of potential unrest in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state.
The Gulf nation with serious political opposition outlawed any "gatherings, rallies or marches" after Friday prayers, said a report on the state news agency KUNA.
"Everybody should put the interests of the homeland above all considerations," said the statement by Kuwait, which has key U.S. military bases and is an important way station for the U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq.
It also showed how close any unrest in the region comes to U.S. military and political bulwarks — seen as a critical front-line alignment against Iran.
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This should be a very worisome thought to many of us here.
So my question is: if you support illigal and amnsetized immigration from Canada, Mexico, so called boat people from Cuba/Haiti and so on, are you 100% sure that these radical muslims will not come in trying to infiltrate our mosques and radicalize our own muslims? You can say"pan that won't happen". But as I see it we have how many crossing our borders illegally on a daily basis? How hard will it be, to convince Central Americans making pennies a day to make product here in the USA. To join radical islamist groups
to be trained, cross the border and go to a mall/stadium/school and release chemical warfare or blow a bomb up? If they are Illegal, we have no background on them. They don't even have to pull the trigger, start anything. They just infiltrate the mosques that use religious freedom to spew hate and revolt. Hopefully, they will begin to do what EVERY impoverished immigrant group did whenthey first got here, see the freedoms we have find jobs and work to build a better place for their children and drop the USA is SATAN and must be destroyed" thinking. Using that and working on some people's belief that America is racist and there is no chance to move forward, that everything is run by a one party system and that the wealthy have bought and paid for everything. Within the groups we do have here that are disillusioned enough and just mad even more so, to listen to the people, these radical illegal immigrants here only to start a flame and some dissension.
I don't see "love and peace" happening. I see more Iranian type radical government over there, hating the USA for keeping these sadistic dictators in power while the country did nothing to help the people in anyway,
I'm not feeling too safe right now. The Barbarians are knocking on the gates and Obama better stop playing that fucking violin and build a wall. Mke it hard to cross our borders. the only issues I can see is it may take longer to cross the Canadian border... that sucks, I love Toronto. It may take longer to cross the mexican border.... that sucks, they may increase the tequila rates.
I maybe Chicken Little sounding or the boy who cried wolf too many times. But you would have to be blind not to see that the real possibility exists.