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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?

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You don't seem to be grasping my point.

The schills for this agreement keep telling us that we should trust the UAE, and that the UAE is different from all of the other Islamic dictatorships, simply because they allow so much foreign investment, and have an affinity for some quasi-capitalist practices.

Whether or not a country is capitalist is not relevant in my opinion, if it has none of the other characteristics of a genuinely democratic, stable, pluralistic free nation.

The UAE was just condemned by the U.S. State Dept., and has the same scale of freedom-perhaps not quite as bad-as Saudi Arabia.

That's not what I would consider an "ally."