Me thinks this will...

...be a damn interesting week.

Looks as though the stock market may tank this week due to the completely unstable situation in the European Union.

Things will get fun in The Middle East due to the whole Israel / Palestinian situation.  So let's get this straight - the Israeli's are going to get attacked if the Palestinians don't get their state (for the first time, BTW - Palestine has never existed before, but that's a different story - oh, before you complain, I support self determination), and they will get attacked almost assuredly if they DO get their state.  Needless to say, I imagine there are a bunch of people in Israel and the Formerly Jordanian and Egyptian areas of the Middle East, going through a bunch of checklists right now, and making sure their kids know where their pro-masks are.  Sad, but inevitable, I suppose.

Then in further Middle East news, the Turks are making some serious noises about going to bat for the Palestinians.  Complicated, indeed by the aforementioned UN vote this week.  It does look as though if there becomes a recognized Palestine, Turkey could recognize the PA, and then send it's warships against the Gaza blockade.  Israel, like the good ol' USA do love us a good old fashioned shooting war against someone dumb enough to go up against us in airplanes, tanks, ships and submarines.  The Turkish Navy will be put on the bottom of the Med in quick order, and barring some kind of '67 / Yom Kippur Arab / Muslim alliance action, their air force will quickly suffer.  Issue being the big Turkish air base in Incirlik does have a bunch of American personnel there, due to turkey being an ally and all.  If the turks do decide to start engaging the Israeli's in the "two way live fire", I think they're not going to be real happy with the results.  But they'd have to be blind and mentally incapacitated to think that the Israeli's are not going to sit idly by while

So what do we do?  Turkey hasn't exactly been card carrying members of the "I <3 America club" as of late, didn't really help out in Iraq, and are not making nice with our dear Little Satan, Israel.  Israel is pretty much the only friend we have, insofar as much as they need us for resupply of weapons and material, should things get bad enough.  Also, our stellar commander in chief has done such a stellar job, the Israeli's might just go it alone and do things we don't like.

Rock, meet hard place time...

So, who knows?  There will be some rioting in New York, and there might soon be a three or four way shooting war in the Middle East, that we're not actively participating in.  The economies of all the Western Powers (European Union) are on the ropes, and we're not exactly doing gang busters either.

So, no matter what happens, this week is going to be a memorable one!

Huzzah!

Out,

Crazed American.