the cauldron

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The eyes of the world are on the cauldron in the middle east but they center on Egypt. Ears strain to hear the words which will give some assurance that peace might be found for the millions of people within the Arab world. America and the western world watches intently knowing that the chaos and disruption we see will spread and will have an effect on our lives. The struggle within Egypt is but another step in the climb radical Islam must take to gain complete control over the middle east.

The most obvious thing to me is the oil. This is now the worlds most valued commodity and is needed by all nations and valued by some even more so than food, and it will be used against the western world. Oil ships from the  middle east through the Red Sea and through the Mediterranean Sea. Two countries which will have great effect on shipping will be Libya, which sits alongside Egypt on the Mediterranean and Ethiopia which sits at the south end of the Red Sea. These two countries are going to do what radical Islam demands they do. When those two places come under control of the radical Islamic extremists it is only a very short time before the western world is forced to do something.

The lack of oil going into the European countries will cause great turmoil and because the oil shipments will be under the complete control of the Radical Islamists, those demonstrations we see in the middle east will shortly move into the streets of Europe and the whole world will be involved. Food shortages will happen and populations of those countries are sure to produce in varying levels the same violence we see taking place in Egypt and other middle eastern countries. This is not an easy problem to solve.