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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
What you call "democracy" in Egypt was a militant terrorist organization taking advantage of a largely disenfranchised, uneducated, starving population in a country where the land mass is only capable of supporting about 1% of the current population. The Muslim Brotherhood handed out food and water in exchange for votes to people who are desperate, uneducated and unequipped to make political decisions in their own best interests. In fact, it's largely because of the deplorable living conditions in the Middle East and part of Africa that many of these terrorist organizations are able to take power. I think a PP who said more education is really on the right track. Also, you talk about fuel independence (which I personally agree with) but then why do so many liberals, as yourself, side against the Keystone pipeline and other efforts to increase fuel independence in this country?  [/quote]

Regardless of how the Muslim Brotherhood got elected, they were elected. Either you have to support the outcome of elections are stop supporting the idea of elections. It is hypocritical to support elections that only have the desired outcome.

I don't view the Keystone pipeline, which is supposed to transport oil from Canada, as a stop towards energy independence. The rest of the world would still need Middle East oil, so things really wouldn't change much (except the resulting pollution would increase global warming). We need to move to a non-petroleum fuel.
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