Dubai threat to hit back (UAE Threatens Against Boeing and US Bases Support)

The Hill.com ^ | March 9, 2006 | Roxana Tiron

[KJC1]

I wouldn't sell an Arab/Muslim a bottle of water to save them from death by dehydration...

Wow. This port issue has really brought out the ugly here.

[prairiebreeze]

How about an LLC? haa!

[CharlesWayneCT]

And look at what has happened. Our friend has decided that, to protect the friendship, they will voluntarily restructure part of the deal.

My argument has always been that we should NOT BLOCK the deal, because there was no legal basis to do so.

But DP World has made a sound business decision, and I can only hope the republicans in congress will realise their stupidity and drop it. I presume the democrats will push to codify things and to try to get more out of this, because they think it's a political plus for them, but I hope the republicans will start acting like republicans.

[ohioWfan]

You obviously don't read the majority of my posts. Anyone who thinks that I'm a Republican apologist isn't paying attention.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I have no problem with idiots from the KKK staging a hate rally and making fools of themselves.

Just don't give them access to our ports, and I'm fine.

[Edit35]

China and India are in the (OIL) market. Course, there's not many people there.

If the UAE (or any Arab country) sells oil to China or India, that will free up that same exact amount that China and India is already buying somewhere else this very minute, perhaps from Indonesia, or Russia.

Oil is a worldwide commodity. Each drop that is taken out of the ground in essence goes into a worldwide market. If we can't buy it from country X, we can buy it from country Y, AND THEY KNOW IT.

[CharlesWayneCT]

We nuked japan because we were at WAR with them.

We didn't nuke france because they wouldn't vote the right way in the security council.

[ohioWfan]

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.

Is this not racist? Why is this kind of post permitted on FR?

[Cboldt]

How about an LLC? haa!

A possibility, or a number of regional or local LLCs.

[TigersEye]

Such a staunch ally in the war on terror. Got any more where these skunks came from?

Nope. Sorry! I'm afraid we're fresh out of ME countries who are willing to do this for us...

The biggest US Naval port outside the Continental U.S.

The only ME Arab country that gives us intelligence and operatives in the ME.

Use of their airbases.

The biggest, cleanest and safest R&R base for our troops in the ME.

Has troops with our special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Has people in Iraq helping train up Iraqi police and military personnel.

Has 500 American companies doing business on their soil.

Sells us lots of oil. (We haven't converted to switch grass yet.)

[Dolphy]

Any idea where the other non-US terminals are that P&O is selling them, and what percentage of the total $7 billion deal involves US terminals?

I'm not on my home computer where I have that information saved but I think you can get it at P & O's website. (Not the financial breakdown, but the business operations.)

[.cnI redruM]

No. The UAE has not spent over $100 Billion dollars developing a military doctrine, and supporting weapons programs and training courses, known as "Assassin's Mace" designed to completely take down the US military's global information grid. Also noticeably absent from the equation are the millions of dollars that China has spent to fund Hugo Chavez and Robert Mugabe.

Norway cooperates with the US military via the NATO alliance and also has no dog in the fight down in Africa unless the UN dumps their peacekeepers in some place like Rawanda. Next?

[CygnusXI]

"We didn't nuke france because they wouldn't vote the right way in the security council."

Hey. We all make mistakes.
/evil grin

[Cold Heat]

Wow. This port issue has really brought out the ugly here.

Yeah, it sure has.....:-(

[ohioWfan]

That's what I was thinking, Howlin.

When did Chuck Schumer and the NYTimes join grassroots conservatism?

This is leftwing driven hysteria. It's most certainly NOT grassroots anything.

[Howlin]

Wow. This port issue has really brought out the ugly here.

See what I told you; and it is ALWAYS the same ones. Without fail.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

And they call themselves our FRIENDS?

Since when do FRIENDS behave this way with such vindictiveness?

Hint: Friends don't retaliate like this.

Friends shouldn't have any opportunity to retaliate. We proved we were not their friends by screwing them for no reason. They responded as most of us would after being stabbed in the back by a so-called-friend. Now it is them that is not being a good friend? Bull.

[attiladhun2]

Since all of these Gulf States' ruling families are linked by strong familial, religious, economic, and ethnic ties, what makes you think they might all tell us to go fly a kite?
I can see that this feeding frenzy is being fueled by nothing but anti-Arab hatred, it is not being generated by rational thought.

[.cnI redruM]

Seriously. I'd say the UAE practices a much more civilized interpretation of the Islamic religion than France does. (Judging by the recent behavior of Muslims in each country.)

[isrul]

"What is it about Dubai that bedevils its few supporters?"

The question has been asked. But I've never seen an answer that made sense.