[MNJohnnie]

You remind me of something. It has been really bizarre listening to the same people who tell us NOT to worry about Iran getting the bomb "because M.A.D. means they would not dare use the bomb for fear of being obliterated" then turn around and scream bloody murder about the Ports. EXCUSE me? If MAD applies to Iran it is a heck of a lot more applicable to the UAE. They want to get rich, anything slips thru on their watch THEY KNOW they will be in our cross hairs. If MAD supposedly applies to suicide cult nut jobs running Iran it CERTAINLY is even more applicable to the Westernized Arabs running UAE.

[p23185]

I would venture a guess that MAD will never work with Islamofacists who are willing to blow themselves up. The USSR wanted to continue living, that is why MAD workded so well all those decades.

[Seattle Conservative]

Exactly. These are the same people that say that terrorism isn't a threat and that the Prez and Pubbies are fear-mongering and use it as a scare tactic to win elections; and, so the President can obtain more power and is acting like a 'dictator' or 'king'. These are also the same ones that screamed about Bush and his admin doing racial profiling in screening people at airports, so little old ladies and kids are now screened, even though they didn't fly planes on 9/11. These are also the same ones that say that Muslims can't have a democratic, capitalistic state. Then scream when a Muslism capitalistic company wants to do even better by working with us. They are again (still?) trying to have it both ways and are again being arrogant, egotistical, hypocritical, bigotted demagogues.