[newzjunkey]

“If we reject the company in terms of doing the [ports] work, they are going to lose a lot of face. In the Arab culture, losing face is a big deal,”

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.

[jimbo123]

We must appease the "Arab Street". We must appease the "Arab Street". We must appease the "Arab Street."

[Sweetjustusnow]

"If we're going to get the Arab on the street's respect (rather than them becoming Al Queda), we need to step carefully."

I'm done stepping carefully around Islamofacism. When I see the Emirates culling history books that actually teach history, teaching wahhabism in their grade schools, supporting Hamas and suicide bombers, and the world banks excepting their absurd money system, I don't give a rat's @$$ about the "Arab street" and gaining their "respect". It isn't going to happen. You can use a carrot all you want but that carrot will be turned in to a stick on their end to beat you with. The only way to win the peace is to break the back of the enemy and giving them business deals in the USA is absurd. Should we have allowed free trade with Germany during WW2?