tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post7453085260138615057..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: DEJAVU ALL OVER AGAINLallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-59365985105547455742011-02-15T18:06:26.211-05:002011-02-15T18:06:26.211-05:00I hear ya Tom.I hear ya Tom.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-62810529037309270342011-02-15T17:38:33.783-05:002011-02-15T17:38:33.783-05:00Nice post Lal. Your take that our Vietnam anti-war...Nice post Lal. Your take that our Vietnam anti-war movement and the current middle-east uprisings were both driven by an educated young generation is well-taken.<br /><br />With respect to the latter, there is another factor: The rise of the Internet and social media. None of this would have happened as it did without events being perceived literally in "real time" and the ability of common people to participate via email, blogs, twitter and the like. Not to mention the power of cell phone videos! <br /><br />~ WillyAlamedaTomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01623796440779934437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-7098505871631564412011-02-14T11:11:48.199-05:002011-02-14T11:11:48.199-05:00Niall Fergerson, Harvard and Oxford Universities&#...Niall Fergerson, Harvard and Oxford Universities' professor of economics and history, has an interesting article in Newsweek. On Morning Joe this morning he summed up Obama's foriegn policy. "I am not Bush, love me".JImhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13795849285955713444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-88770581240986619952011-02-13T12:59:16.384-05:002011-02-13T12:59:16.384-05:00yeah
and I remember millions of Roman Soldiers and...yeah<br />and I remember millions of Roman Soldiers and the other Ronan greedy -batards<br />who for many many many decades marched across Europe to "Liberate" the "Holy Land"<br /><br />look where it got them... and the Semites who 'owned' their lands..<br /><br />not much changed, eh?<br /><br />and just look<br /><br />now that Iraq has been "liberated" and is now a bone-fried "democracy" they sure are stable and the people are prosperous watching this Egiption event on their new 53 inch SONY tvs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-49925523302632166192011-02-13T11:09:25.843-05:002011-02-13T11:09:25.843-05:00Thattaboy Jim, see things in their least positive ...Thattaboy Jim, see things in their least positive light and try to sap the hope from this event.<br /><br />And you give credence to Thomas Friedman's cousin?<br /><br />As long as you're quoting, my friend Amr, an Egyptian living in LA, calls this a modern day David and Goliath situation, so even it was 200k, that's all the more impressive. Tiananmen Square, remember that?Robert G. Zuckermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450306458083217831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-61546275974812806152011-02-13T09:45:06.854-05:002011-02-13T09:45:06.854-05:00George Friedman of Stratfor was on Fox this mornin...George Friedman of Stratfor was on Fox this morning. His take on Egypt was that it was less a popular uprising, than a military overthrow of Mubarak. His estimate of the croud was 200,000, which he determined was not all that impressive for a large city like Cairo. Friedman estimated that the US will have little or no influence on Egyptian events.<br /><br />Friedman is recognised as very informed on international and military matters.JImhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13795849285955713444noreply@blogger.com