When the first Gulf War began, this Blogger was in Luxor, Egypt, on the Nile. (See UP THE NILE, the Greatest Question Ever Asked Results in MAXEY PASHA… http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/2015/05/up-nile-greatest-question-ever-asked.html ). As a consequence of being the last American on the Nile, this Blogger was assigned a Nubian Guardian as a personal bodyguard, and a squad of Egyptian Tourism Policemen to protect him. Eventually, a Tourist Police Captain arrived to protect this Blogger. The Captain Ali (his nom de guerre), told me he was there, protecting me, to take the bullet meant for me. This Blogger was flattered. Ali and this Blogger became friends and pen pals. He would write letters to this Blogger, in English; and this Blogger had to reply to the letter accompanied by a corrected copy, and an enhanced, more eloquent version  of his original letter.  He was honing his English writing skills. Later, Ali became a valued member of Egypt’s “deep state”.

On June 14, 2012, I published this:” By their deeds and actions, President Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Irish Born Globalized Elitist  Samantha Power thought and think that Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a “moderate” Islamist. THERE ARE NO MODERATE ISLAMISTS, just patient ones. Mr. Erdogan is a shrewd, patient dictator in the making, who longs to be a Caliph, in a restored Sunni Caliphate, anchored in a restored Ottoman Turkey. To believe anything else is reckless naiveté...GERRY MAXEY" Mr. Erdogan once said that democracy is like a streetcar, one can get off anytime.  Two years after my analysis, it  seems that Mr. Erdogan is becoming impatient, ready to jump off the streetcar of democracy. In his impatience, Mr. Erdogan has become more than shrewd; he has become Machiavellian. So Machiavellian that he almost involved Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama and the United States in an unjustified war in Syria. Mr. Erdogan’s p