Thread: Egypt...WTF???
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Old 09-12-2012, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by MS Fowler View Post
Seriously,
This situation is bone-chillingly similar to events during the Carter administration. Rioters took US embassy personnel hostage and held them. and held them. That event may have had some impact on the election of Reagan. The hostages were released as he was being sworn in.
Are you really going to try to draw a parallel between a one-day flare-up at an embassy, versus a 444-day long hostage crisis clearly conducted in cooperation with the then-current Iranian government? Do you have strong evidence of Libyan government complicity in yesterday's events?
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