Tag: egypt

June 9, 2015 0

Maxim Lott must be a great uphill runner

By News Desk

Tweet Maxim Lott sees the slope of the line for the last 17 years as being virtually flat. I imagine that if he went for a run and came to a hill, he wouldn’t even notice it. The NASA data he cites is here  (which doesn’t include any of the scorching 2015 data), and his article here

June 8, 2015 0

Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Ukraine

By News Desk

Tweet Haven’t done a foreign policy post in a while, so here’s three in one: 1. The list above shows messed-countries and messed-up outcomes, so that part’s consistent, but what’s inconsistent is the level of effort by the US to change the outcome.

April 1, 2014 0

Egypt Vs. The Muslim Brotherhood – Preventing the Next Syria

By News Desk

How Egypt Got Here    Egypt’s current turmoil is a direct result of the 2011 so-called “Arab Spring.†While nations like Libya lie in ruins with the “revolution†a “success†and the Libyan people now subjugated by pro-Western proxies, and Syria as it continues to fight on in a costly 3 year conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives, Egypt has taken a different path.  When violent mobs began inching Egypt toward violence of Libyan and Syrian proportions, the Egyptian military, who has been the primary brokers of power in Egypt for decades, bent with the winds of change. Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power and the military tolerated the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood itself into power.