Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
It's not so funny. If I was Ahmadinajhad in Iran, I'd be doing my darndest to throw out the Emir in Dubai and dump the US out of the only serious port in the Gulf. Haven't you noticed that the supply lines to Iraq are seriously vulnerable?
And wait until we need them to be on our side when we have to deal with Iran and other hot spots in the ME.
When I first heard about this deal, I wasn't happy about it at all. Within a day or two, as the facts came out amidst the hysteria on FR, I just kept saying that now we've ticked off the very people we need to trust and the military has trusted. This is about as bad an outcome as I could envision.
I'm listening to Gen. Pace on Rush right now and he's saying he couldn't ask for a better partner in that region.
To your delight the President will not veto the bill because our REPUBLICANS in the House of Representatives inserted the blocking of Dubai Ports into the appropriation bill for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. This deal is dead and now be ready for the bad consequences.
I agree 1000%.
It comes down to this: Sell us these rights, ( sell us (x) in the future) or we'll...
No bases now. What will be the threat in the future? Sell us this, or else?
I wouldn't sell an Arab/Muslim a bottle of water to save them from death by dehydration, much less the rights to anything in this country.
Now its not that they have the chance to buy these rights-they DEMAND it. Typical Arabs.
I am a Bush supporter- but in this I think he's wrong.
Blackmail is ending military cooperation with the war on terror and evicting our bases from their country over a failed business deal. Business deals fail all the time. The Emir of Dubai and his cronies needs to get over it and stop making threats on our future security.
Try READING before reacting....
I don't preclude having Arab Muslims as allies, but NOT to the extent that our economy or security are DEPENDENT or held hostage and BLACKMAILED by them...
This very instance of UAE's potential to severely impact a critical American business because some Sheik or "Royal Family" is in a snit over a troubled business deal - is an example of the hazards we should have been aware of --- dealing with these "folks"....
If reports of the threatened "blackmail" by UAE against Boeing or others are true, then they themselves prove the weakness of their "ally" status...
Make a deal with the devil, deal with the heat...
Semper Fi
Furious Islamists making threats? Imagine that.
Savage is obviously an idiot.
An excellent point that is often missed in all the hysteria around here.
This just proves why we shouldn't have ANY kind of foreign port operation/ownership/tourism/references in poetry/whatever. Making threats is not a diplomatic method of getting your way. Smacks more like Iran of late.
I'm very happy we didn't do business with these phonies. Their true colors are shining through.
Yep, and let all those employees of Boeing bleat when they're laid off because of cancelled contracts.
Truth.
My goodness! The RINO'S must be all over FR now. How sickening is that!
You've been suckered Junior...
This is a critical point. If we're going to get the Arab on the street's respect (rather than them becoming Al Queda), we need to step carefully. Scrutiny has been given, they've passed muster, the deal should go through. To do otherwise is clearly prejudice. Bush *must* veto an attempt by Congress to block this deal. No more pussy-footing around with empty veto threats like with the budget deals.
No one cares that we have a foreign company running airports or that UAE has flights going to JFK daily. The ports now aren't very secure, this won't change that to make them less so.
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