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With the United Nations’ authorization of all necessary measures to take down the Gaddafi regime, the world is once more looking to the USA and NATO to intervene. But Egypt is an original member of the United Nations, has Africa’s largest military and shares a border with Libya.

Will Egypt export its democratic revolution?

Concerned about the awful news coming out of Pakistan regarding the latest triumph of homicidal religious fanatics? Read my latest in The Propagandist, A Modest Proposal for Pakistan. Fear The Reaper:

You might ask why I am writing to you, since my concern might be more appropriately addressed to the government of Pakistan. Indeed, to get to the root of the problem of rampant Islamist terror emanating from Pakistan, their political leaders must engage this scourge head-on.

Since this isn’t happening, we are left to address the symptoms of the problem of Islamist violence, especially where it manifests in terror movements that can act in a global theatre of operations. And it is here that I believe certain US-led programs in some of the more remote areas of Pakistan are meeting with some success…

An excellent article by Jonathan Kay in the National Post on the gratitude we owe miners.

Working conditions for miners have improved greatly in the 73 years since those words were written. Yet the general principle holds true: We conduct our daily lives oblivious to the fact that virtually every device we use, from a computer to a car to a ball-point pen, is made possible by a global legion of men working in claustrophobic conditions many hundreds of yards beneath the Earth’s surface. And every single one of them is just one Earth-tremor or cave-in away from spending eternity entombed in a mine tunnel. It’s something we should think about as we celebrate the dramatic rescue of 33 miners who spent 70 days trapped in Chile’s San Jose Mine.

Lately, I’ve been devoting a fair bit of blog space to Turkey’s role in the Middle East, so I’ve been receiving attention from a new class of weirdo.

I get a fair bit of hate mail from people who can barely spell, but this rambling stream of consciousness from muavenet_06@hotmail.com seemed funnier than usual. I especially enjoyed the part about genital herpes.

Jonathan narvey called sucka.someone is using your name to ask questions on yahoo travel Turkey section.

So don’t you get in to those matters again.

On a side note, someone really was impersonating my in the Yahoo! Travel Answers section. They were mis-spelling my name, but their intention was clear, since as far as I know, there are no other Jonathon (or Jonathan) Narvey’s in the universe. So I did report the impersonator.

By the way, muavenet_06@hotmail.com, I hope you noticed that my latest piece on Turkey got picked up by the National Post this morning. Enjoy.

Some interesting comments of late coming from Turkey’s leader, regarding Kurdish terrorist attacks:

“I say here very clearly, they will not win. They will gain nothing. They will melt away in their own darkness … they will drown in their own blood.” (The Guardian)

“Our fight will continue until the terrorist organization has been annihilated.” (BBC News)

Of course, Mr. Erdogan is very careful speaker and his words are not to be taken out of context. There are terrorists and then there are… whatever this Hamas guy is. Definitely not a terrorist, though.

The macho dude above is in Gaza. And you can’t be a terrorist and live in Gaza. Just like it’s impossible for a Muslim nation to commit genocide — which is certainly of great consolation to the victims of Darfur as well as a million or so dead Armenians.