U.S Involvement in Egypt

So there were several things I wanted to discuss this week and perhaps I will post again on other topics later this week. Tonight as I logged on to the Internet, this headline caught my attention and THIS headline was the deciding factor in tonight's post.

On Yahoo's homepage: "Egypt protest leader urges U.S to act".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/ts_nm/us_egypt_usa_elbaradei

For those of you who have not read the news this week, Egypt is falling apart. Riots, violence and theft of ancient relics. And the call for the overthrowing of a dictator. The people are tired of being oppressed and are standing up now to this dictator but in doing so, there has been a surge of violence. The situation in Egypt is dire and it was only a matter of time before the inevitable was requested. Now, as I imagine, once the U.S does get involved, because we most likely will, many will have missed this key request and will assume that the U.S is sticking it's nose where it does not belong once again.


I recently did some research and study on the past U.S involvement in wars and conflicts over occupying territory for power in other countries. It was alarming to me at how many times the U.S. has been ASKED to get involved in other countries issues. I, like many always thought we just went in and provided aid, took over control and never left once we set up base. But in fact, we have been asked for help by many whose military forces do not have the means to truly defend themselves against radical leaders, terrorism, communism and so on. We are asked because it is assumed that we have the resources. But look at how in debt we are. While we may have the man power, the training and one hell of a military, we lack the financial stability to continue to rush to the aid of other countries.

My concern with getting involved in the dismay in Egypt is that this has the potential to lead to a holy war. There is no reasoning with the religious beliefs that govern the Middle East. And although geographically Egypt is part of Africa, alliances with Egypt are dire to our economic situation. The only thing separating Egypt from Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan...is a canal. And through that canal are many exports, predominately oil.Now more than ever, I feel strongly that our government needs to work with the environmentalists and come up with a compromise that will allow for more drilling in America and for our advanced technological resources to be utilized in exploring and producing alternative fuels to reduce dependency on other countries for resources that are key in our economic survival.

What is your take on the situation? Is there a way for the U.S to stay out of the conflict in Egypt without consequence? If you were President, what would you do? I urge you to read up on the situation in Egypt because this is historical and could be life altering for many countries and have dire consequences. And because this situation is so fresh, I am still researching so I welcome intelligent discussion to shed more insight on this situation.