Author Topic: felix rex moves to Cairo (Read 320224 times)

CNS · « **Reply #2850 on:** September 18, 2015, 03:52:46 PM »

All the pubs have to do is argue that Clinton was the S.o.S, and look what happened with the regime she helped establish during her tenure.

felix rex · « **Reply #2851 on:** September 20, 2015, 08:51:10 AM »

Quote from: ednksu on September 18, 2015, 03:48:31 PM

Quote from: felix rex on September 18, 2015, 03:41:18 PM
I promise you that once it's officially confirmed, it will hit the media back home. U.S. weapons attacking U.S. citizens in a country where military assistance is already controversial? There will be blood.
I would agree many other days out of the week. The national media is too preoccupied with 'Pub debate BS and other related topics. You really think any of the 'Pubs will talk about any kind of military issue that doesn't involve spending more money? Any negative .mil related story is a no go for them.

Too many Republican candidates and leaders have specifically praised Sisi for it not to become an issue.

wetwillie · « **Reply #2852 on:** September 20, 2015, 09:02:57 AM »

Is it possible that maybe you are over reacting here felix?

felix rex · « **Reply #2853 on:** September 20, 2015, 12:52:26 PM »

Possible. But an American tourist being shelled by an Apache supplied by America to a government with a very dubious human rights record seems lik kind of a big deal to me.

BTW, the Egyptian media published the American's name today and said she left the Egyptian hospital to return to the states.

felix rex · « **Reply #2854 on:** September 20, 2015, 12:55:49 PM »

To recap for those not reading all the previous posts: the Egyptian military carried out 5 airstrikes over three hours on a group of picnicking foreign tourists 4 hours outside Cairo, killing 12 and injuring 10 using both Apaches and ground forces who gunned down those that tried to run away.

felix rex · « **Reply #2855 on:** September 20, 2015, 12:56:49 PM »

The group had permits, had gone through all the usual checkpoints, and had a police escort with them at the time.

mocat · « **Reply #2856 on:** September 20, 2015, 01:53:35 PM »

The American made apaches part is the least shocking or bothersome. I mean we sell our crap to everyone and have forever.

felix rex · « **Reply #2857 on:** September 20, 2015, 02:52:51 PM »

"Leahy vetting is a process through which the U.S. government vets U.S. assistance to foreign security forces, as well as Department of Defense training programs, to ensure that recipients have not committed gross human rights abuses."

felix rex · « **Reply #2858 on:** September 20, 2015, 02:55:46 PM »

Name a time an American tourist was the victim of three-hours of airstrikes via American-supplied arms courtesy of a key American ally with whom we've recently been promoting said arms sales in tweets that literally used the campaign slogan of that country's president as a hashtag.

felix rex · « **Reply #2859 on:** September 20, 2015, 02:56:27 PM »

I may have set an esoteric bar there, so use poetic license.

slobber · « **Reply #2860 on:** September 20, 2015, 02:56:41 PM »

Quote from: felix rex on September 20, 2015, 12:52:26 PM

Possible. But an American tourist being shelled by an Apache supplied by America to a government with a very dubious human rights record seems lik kind of a big deal to me.

BTW, the Egyptian media published the American's name today and said she left the Egyptian hospital to return to the states.

I thought she was dead?

Gonna win 'em all!

felix rex · « **Reply #2861 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:05:49 PM »

Her fiancé, a legal resident and Mexican citizen, is dead. She was fortunate enough to survive shrapnel wounds that caused heavy bleeding and medical care that was delayed for about 8-9 hours.

felix rex · « **Reply #2862 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:07:32 PM »

If I'm overreacting to this, by God I swear I will eat BOTH a McArabic and whatever crazy Pizza Hut Egyptian option the board chooses.

slobber · « **Reply #2863 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:13:28 PM »

I don't think you are (no history to support that as your MO), but now I hope you are.

Gonna win 'em all!

mocat · « **Reply #2864 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:40:35 PM »

You are definitely not overreacting. It's just the American made bit that doesn't seem so shocking to me.

mocat · « **Reply #2865 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:41:26 PM »

I mean we shot down a freaking airliner and killed like 300 people in the 80s and what were the consequences?

Trim · « **Reply #2866 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:46:29 PM »

The american-made 'copters part isn't shocking but could be the most politically inflammatory here.

felix rex · « **Reply #2867 on:** September 23, 2015, 11:04:08 AM »

Before heading to the UN general Assembly, Sisi pardoned a bunch of political prisoners. The most famous one was randomly dropped off at the school across the street where I take my daughter to play on the weekends. He said he had no idea why police dropped him there. So rough ridin' Egyptian.

Johnny Wichita · « **Reply #2868 on:** September 23, 2015, 12:54:36 PM »

This has been in the news. Nobody cares.

felix rex · « **Reply #2869 on:** September 23, 2015, 02:08:15 PM »

That the police literally drove him from the Max security prison to the ritzy expat neighborhood and dropped him on the curb still in his prison clothes? That's the part I thought was funny.

sys · « **Reply #2870 on:** September 23, 2015, 04:21:25 PM »

mexicans seem to mostly not care. think it's hypocritical of their president to care/pretend to care when his administration (in their eyes) has dragged feet on/covered up domestic murders.

ednksu · « **Reply #2871 on:** September 24, 2015, 12:29:59 AM »

Hey Al Jazz guys, thanks for the journalism 101 in class in prison, don't let the door hit you on the way out!

CNS · « **Reply #2872 on:** September 24, 2015, 06:36:06 AM »

NPR had one of them on yesterday afternoon. Asked him "what are you going to do now?" and the guy , for real, said "I'm going to Disneyland... ".

That happened.

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Cire · « **Reply #2873 on:** September 24, 2015, 06:52:09 AM »

Are the streets running with the blood of animal sacrifices for eid?

felix rex · « **Reply #2874 on:** September 24, 2015, 07:21:24 AM »

Quote from: Cire on September 24, 2015, 06:52:09 AM

Are the streets running with the blood of animal sacrifices for eid?

They passed a law banning the slaughter of animals in the streets (skeptical locals call it the "parting the Red Sea" law).

https://twitter.com/the_felixrex/status/647019466954526720

It's a literal slaughterhouse downstairs in the parking garage. We're on the ground floor, and the screams and charnel stench are so overwhelming we're spending almost all the holiday outside the house. My daughter may never sleep again.