BLOCKBUSTER TRADE PENDING

As the NBA trading deadline approaches, we just learned of the a major trade that brought all-star Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Nuggets to the New York Knicks for four lesser players. The trade had immediate dividends as Carmelo scored 27 points in his debut leading the Knicks in rout of the Milwaukee Bucks.

Today their are murmurs of a much larger trade that will have worldwide implications.  There are unconfirmed rumors that Afghanistan is talking directly to Egypt about a straight-up swap of Hosni Mubarak for Hamid Karzi.  Of course, Hosni would have to be coaxed out of retirement, but the belief is that he would be very interested in running another totalitarian regime.  Of course, it might take a little while for Hosni to get the iron fist back in shape but experts feel that he should be able to dominate the new country by the middle of the season.  Friends and associates report that Hosni is regularly goose-stepping along the beach at his vacation home in Sharmelsheik in hopes of a possible return to the imperial palace again.  Egypt, on the other hand,  has been looking for a less dominant leader and one that is content sitting in the background planning domestic policy.

This trade has major implications for the United States.  The US has been funding the old Mubarak regime in Egypt for the bargain price of $2 billion a year and has gotten security and absolute stability from Egypt for the past 12 years.  Afghanistan has been requiring about $120 billion per year of US funding over the past few years.  The US believes that if Mubarak is able to quell the current unrest and bring stability back to Afghanistan for the paltry sum of $2 billion per year then it will have an additional $118 billion per year under the salary cap.  This $118 billion could then be used to back new dictators, enhance our nation building efforts throughout the Third World and there could possibly be a billion left over to fund the heating assistance program for the impoverished ederly.

The key component of the deal sending Hosni Mubarak to Afghanistan is that it guarantees the Afghan people true democracy in about 30 years which is obviously much faster than anything that might be accomplished under the present regime.  There are several recent rumors that Libya is shopping Qaddafi.