This comes in the wake of Cheney's speech Carol, Ohio:


With this odd battle of words let's debate:

1. Is this a threat? Is Egypt capable and willing to commit to an attack on US soil? Or is this just another scare tactic?
   
2. Cheney claims that Kerry can not handle a terrorist attack on US soil. Is this true or is Cheney playing to the crowd? If Cheney is playing, what has Kerry said or written in a policy that makes you feel different.
   
3. Is America prepared for such an attack on the US soil?

Is this a threat? Is Egypt capable and willing to commit to an attack on US soil? Or is this just another scare tactic?

This sounds like a bonafide point made by an Arab man who is tired of seeing western powers fighting wars in the middle east to me. As an Egyptian, he's had every one from the French, the Germans, the British, the Israeli's and the Americans driving armies through his region, and in all that time, how many times did Egypt invade a western nation?

I doubt Egypt is powerful enough to actually bomb LA, in fact I doubt whether or not the Egyptian government would really contemplate such an action since they must understand the backlash that would immedietly follow.

But I have to say that this man, is not saying anything that does not resonate right across the world. I think, just about every human being old enough to know the history of the last one hundred years is now regarding the USA with anxious and indignant (or more often than not, terrified) eyes


Cheney claims that Kerry can not handle a terrorist attack on US soil. Is this true or is Cheney playing to the crowd? If Cheney is playing, what has Kerry said or written in a policy that makes you feel different.

Cheney is scaremongering which is what he alwasy does.


Is America prepared for such an attack on the US soil?

I don't know. I doubt it.

Let see 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973. Sounds like a declaration of war, maybe the Egyptian government will do something about and then again maybe pigs will fly soon too.

As capable as any group of terrorists. More capable since the US trained their military


Unknown quantity, though whomever sits in the White House would respond, just how is the unknown.

No they are not even close yet.

loreng59



Exaclty.

Four disastrous attacks versus two hundred or more years of western imperialism...

Its not hard to see whats biting this guy in the eema.