A Very Savage Friday

"Woe to those who decree unrightious decrees, who write misfortune, which they have proscribed to rob the needy of justice, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, and that they may rob the fatherless."
-Isiah 10:1-2

Woe indeed. I was saddened to hear about the bomb blasts in the Sinai. I love the Sinai. In college we'd go to Sinai like most people head to their nearest coast. It was not our nearest coast. That would have been the Med but Sinai was always our first choice.
It was the kind of place where a man could go out on clear blue waters and fight a sailfish for half the day. One single sailfish. Or another man can sit, intoxicated in the shade, and watch the shadows grow longer.
It is not a place I could imagine several explosions ripping through a luxury hotel.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/08/egypt.explosions/index.html
http://7am.com/cgi-bin/wires02.cgi?1000_2004100804.htm

I never went to Taba. It wasn't my kind of place. But I have a friend who worked there and she is quite disturbed by the whole savage affair.

"It was always something we used to joke about, " she told me, from Canada. "Getting blown up, over there. You know how it was in Cairo."
"Cairo was never that bad," I told her.
"Yeah, but you know what I mean. This is different, damnit. This was the Sinai. We used to joke about it, you know, all the security they had there but, I mean, damn, it finally happened."

Yes, ma'am, it finally happened. Security or not, they got blowed up all to hell. Hammas said its because of what's going on in Gaza but I doubt that. I doubt that very much, indeed. Why, this is nothing but a cheap and cowardly ploy by the Wrongly Guided Imams to drag Egypt into the New World War.
Egypt has long been our friend. Since before Carter stood grinning on the lawn at Camp David, shaking hands with Sadat and Began, Egypt wanted to be our Friend. Their current president, Hosni Mubarak, has been a good friend. He tried to etch out a spot