well done krellin, i can feel a lot easier about my posts
I do not know the details of what the "president elect" ( although there were two of them last I heard ) of Egypyt has proposed.

I don't think there is an easy "military" solution to Iran, so perhaps Diplomacy could be tried, yet again.

I hadn't been thinking too much about what the changes in Egypt will mean for it's Foreign Policies, I have been thinking mainly in terms of hoping that Egypt's domestic situation improves, that the lives of the "ordinary people" of Egypt improve.

@Major....well, you admit that you know nothing about what the "elected" people have to say, haven't thought much about the impact, etc.....but you choose to comment? Fucking moron.

@Major...."Improvements" in Egypt? Well...since Obama, the King Maker has declared and backed the Muslim Brotherhood candidates....who will then disavow the US....what it means DOMESTICALLY is that any woman in Egypt.....

....oh for fucks sake....READ the damned posts above. basically, 50% of the population just lost the status of personahood, and cn be killed at will by their husbands/fathers, can't participate in government, can't get an education, can't drive, etc.

what the fuck is so hard to figure out about that? And OBAMA BACKS THIS...

we are all going to die and obama and his islamic extremist are laughing.
israel is not what it used to be,no one can save us now.

"The liberal and socialist groups in Egypt are numerous enough that the Brotherhood cannot really make the country Iran on the Nile"

Where are you getting these numbers from? The liberals and socialists are pathetically small.

"It's funny that you worry so much about Iranian influence and yet support Assad's Syria."

Assad's support for Iran is calculated and has been based on either opposition to Iraq (in the 80s) or the US (the 2000s). It's a quintessential realist alliance which didn't really exist in the 90s since neither Iraq nor the US were a problem. More recently though, Syria supported the insurgency in Iraq. Iran supported the US-installed government. If you'll notice the main driving force behind the Syrian opposition is the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, which is a more fundamentalist and hateful version of Egypt's. Assad is by far the most progressive government in the region, by any measure.

"I don't think a war will come from Egypt, or at least not from Egypt's government."

No, Egypt is not going to start a war, but they affect the balance of power in the region. Iran now has a friendly Egypt, an Egypt less pragmatic and more hostile to Israel, and antagonistic to Riyadh. The history of the Middle East doesn't really have as much to do with American or Superpower policy as it does regional rivalries, and this result is only going to intensify them. The Saudis strongly backed Shafiq in this election, so they see this as a defeat for them.