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2011-09-20 Arabia

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Posted by ryuge 2011-09-20 06:23|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1758 views ] Top

1 Nope. Egypt is.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-09-20 07:31|| 2011-09-20 07:31|| Front Page Top

2 Yemen could become a failed state, threatening Saudi Arabia's soft underbelly and thus western oil and gas supplies.

The journo needs to buy a map. Somalia on one side of the Red Sea and it's approaches and Yemen on the other side will effectively close the Suez Canal.

Posted by phil_b 2011-09-20 09:05|| 2011-09-20 09:05|| Front Page Top

3 Egypt is.

You won't see a collapse of the central government as in Somalia.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-20 09:45|| 2011-09-20 09:45|| Front Page Top

4 Yes I will. Maybe Koreans can starve without government breaking down---Arabs can't. (Any Arab government is a house of cards anyway).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-20 13:35|| 2011-09-20 13:35|| Front Page Top

5 There won't be a collapse, because the present 'revolution' really wasn't a fall of the government per se, merely who was in charge. The Eyptian military hasn't decamped.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-20 13:52|| 2011-09-20 13:52|| Front Page Top

6 Earth to Pappy, they're 20 billion $ a year short for buying food.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-20 14:12|| 2011-09-20 14:12|| Front Page Top

7 Spengler?

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-20 15:33|| 2011-09-20 15:33|| Front Page Top

8 What does Venkman think?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-09-20 17:07|| 2011-09-20 17:07|| Front Page Top

9 grom, they may be $20 B short of buying food for the country, but as in North Korea, the army will be the last to go hungry.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-09-20 18:45|| 2011-09-20 18:45|| Front Page Top

10 Egypt imports half its food.

Any supply disruption and 100 million people start to go hungry.

Posted by phil_b 2011-09-20 22:52|| 2011-09-20 22:52|| Front Page Top

11 In the future, we are all going to be Somalia for 15 minutes. The only question is whether we take turns or do it all at once.

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-20 23:02|| 2011-09-20 23:02|| Front Page Top

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