Posted on 02/23/2006 3:37:41 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite
I do know that globalists and free traders can't be patriotic Americans. They are mutually exclusive.
I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me. She was definitely the loudest and shrillest critic, though, in response to the First Lady's comedic performance last year.
She's 2 for 3 then...
You Birchers really need to come up with a new vocabulary. These tired cliches ain't workin'.
Ping!
That's scary!
That is a very interesting take. I had not considered that.
In terms of perception management, when we give the apparance of quid quo pro for the sake of portraying a "one among equals" approach to the WOT, it conveys an overall message of weakness. We are not one among equals, we are a great power. The UAE are a pipsqeak. Our problem seems to be quite the opposite of what some accuse us of, namely, the false accusation of being an empire. Our problem is, we are like the well built, powerful kid who nonetheless fears bullies. So obsessive are we about being seen to be nice (and that, in spite of the fact that half the world are programmed to see us as being just the opposite of that in spite of the real evidence!) that we fail to use our geopolitical power. I am not saying that we need to do something like using our power to coerce the UAE into helping us, but by the same token, this nauseating quid quo pro is at the far opposite extreme of this. If anything, in the depths of the real relationship between the US and UAE, the UAE must be laughing at the giant who is a sucker.
My main question to all you just wrote:
What quid pro quo? THAT *appearance* is because of internal enemies of the administration, not through machination of the UAE. The choice then is, do we let this logical but emotionally-charged lease go through, or do we bow to Hillery and Schumer? The rot from within is much more corrosive than this deal, IMHO.
Hillary will destroy this country, if she gains more power over it. Scuttling this deal will make her power grab much more likely.
UAE has a much smaller chance of even having a *motivation* to destroy this country.
The damage is already done. Huge PR disaster. I am not a DC slickster, but even at my modest level of PR competence, no way would I have pushed this deal. No matter what the hidden logic may have been, any reasonably well thinking person would have been able to predict that no amount of spin or PR work would have made this play well on Main Street.
I guess, in this very rare case, we will have to agree to disagree. The deal makes logical sense, and with an entity in the Middle East that is making a strong attempt to connect to the current era of the West. Internal political posturing here in the United States should not dictate what we do regarding trade and wartime alliances.
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