[CaptainCrunch]

Its interesting if you go back and read history, especially Islamic history. It seems to be a religious institution (like most) that abhors the concept of democracy. In every case, its a strong, and a lot of the time brutal individuals who lead the people and are suppossed to keep them on the path of the faith and righteousnous.

Basically these are men who not only interpret the Koran for the people, but point the sword and tell them where to go.

Islam seems to be more suited to the whole theocracy method of government, while Christianity tends to be a little more subersive, either leading from behind, or leading without being a state figurehead.

If Egypt does happen to fall into more religious leadership, and if Jordan falls, the American's lose two key moderate states, which is a fairly frightening prospect for Israel for example.

And I get the fixation on the Muslim Brotherhood and their statement that they've given up on violence. And I applaud that, however they do not recognize Israel, and I believe they still consider Israel to be an enemy of all Islam, and if they do get into power, how does that truly effect the balance in Middle East, their words and rhetoric alone could cause problems. They could very non violently start smuggling weapons to those nut jobs in Hamas.

Just because you're non violent doesn't mean that you can't kick off a whirlwind in the region.