[nj26]

What you're suggesting is taking a huge risk (handing over our ports) with the hope that maybe we can appease the Muslims into not hating us.

I don't support appeasement.

By the way, has the UAE government publicly apologized for its role in laundering al-Qaeda money and harboring participants in the 9/11 attacks?

[Marine Inspector]

Get it through your head, no one is "handing over our ports".

DPW is leasing terminals at a seaport. Not unlike SuperCuts leasing a shop in a shopping mall.

[Cold Heat]

What you're suggesting is taking a huge risk (handing over our ports) with the hope that maybe we can appease the Muslims into not hating us.

I don't support appeasement.

By the way, has the UAE government publicly apologized for its role in laundering al-Qaeda money and harboring participants in the 9/11 attacks?

We are not handing over the ports, we are allowing them to lease a single terminal at 6 of our ports that we control.

It is not appeasement! We are not being forced politically and through leverage into any agreement, it is a simple business deal between two foreign corporations.

Have the U.S banks apologized for being in on this as well? Have we admitted just how many home grown terroists we have? Some of them are currently alive and well in Afghanistan and possibly Pakistan and currently working against us.

So what makes the UAE a boggy man?

You also neglect to mention what has occured since and the fact that the UAE has been our best friend in the region, with Kuwait a close second, followed by Pakistan.