Private Plane, Public Menace
Wealthy travelers routinely bypass the TSA by flying on private jets. How long until al-Qaeda does…
Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, he has reported from the Middle East and Africa. He also writes the magazine's advice column.
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How could you support a revolution in Egypt that you know will end with the Muslim Brotherhood in power, the Israel-Egypt peace treaty dead, and the further empowering of Hamas in Gaza and even in the West Bank?Well, I don't know that all these things are inevitable. The Muslim Brotherhood might not end up in power; just as in Pakistan, the Islamists in Egypt represent only a minority of citizens. Which is not to say that the Brotherhood couldn't wind up in power, but it's too early to call the rise of the Brotherhood inevitable. If the Brothers do end up in power, then the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, which is responsible for 30 years of stability in the eastern Mediterranean, would be in mortal danger, but even if Egypt were to break relations with Israel, this does not mean that war would necessarily follow. And what is more likely is that the Egyptian Army continues to play an important and stabilizing role, and the Egyptian Army, of course, depends on the United States for much of its budget, and it does not want to lose access to American-made weapons systems, which is what might happen if Egypt were to abrogate the peace treaty.
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