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Gulf News ^ | 3/12/06

[soccermom]

"Then again China is not at war with us."

Funny, I didn't realize the UAE was at war with us. Somebody better go tell that to the U.S. Military, because we're hanging out at their base. They're loading and unloading our Navy ships and they're training Iraqi soldiers with us.

[carton253]

The majority of Americans did not understand what the debate was about. They rose to the race-bait and the rest is history.

[carton253]

I think the problem with your post is that you paint all Arabs/Muslims with the same brush. Do all Muslims hate us? Do all Arabs hate us? Should we distrust all of them?
If the answer is yes... and all hate us, then we should distrust them all... But if the answer is no, then what happened this week in Washington was disgraceful...

[carton253]

I love you... you are so good... LOL!

[LowCountryJoe]

It's easy to goad some [oaky...a whole lot of] FReepers into irrational fear or thinking when it comes emotionally-charged issues. Take careful notice of this poll question and the way and manner in which it was responded to.

[Cold Heat]

true conservatives who disdain markets.

I fully expect to see them with Molotov cocktails and throwing brick at the next trade meeting.

What a bunch!

[LowCountryJoe]

Try this again:
this poll

[CowboyJay]

"If the answer is yes... and all hate us, then we should distrust them all"

Yes, and no. All practicing Islamists hate us. They're required to. They teach it in Sunday school, and write it into their laws. The ones who do not hate us cannot properly be called Islamists any more than could someone who supports abortion be rightly called a practicing Catholic.

[edchambers]

Actually now that I understand this whole thing I'm still torn.Yes there is a part of me that doesn't trust the UAE or any other Muslim and or Arab as far as I can throw them,..for good reason.Then there is the rational part of me that can look at a map and understand just how important an ally the UAE is and hope we didn't screw that up.Mostly this has been a PR disaster for Bush which I hope doesn't rub off on the rest of the party.

[carton253]

I agree with your definition of what a Muslim is. But, just like Europe is called Christian (and they're not) so are Arabs called Muslims. Do all of them hate us? I don't think so.

Only a nitwit paints a people group with one paint brush.

[rollin]

The US and China are in an economic struggle of tremendous significance. . . . some even call it worse than a shooting war because it is destroying the American middle class and lowering the standard of living for all Americans. To infer that we are not in an economic war which could easily esculate to shooting war is something only an unaware American could believe.

[Graymatter]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595016/posts

Have you seen this thread?

I don't think I painted all, at all. But neither do I think we have to wait until every single Muslim on the planet goes on record wishing us dead, before we conclude we'd be suicidally stupid to trust them. My tolerance level, my fuse and my magic number may differ from yours.
What I was saying was that it seems there are more people who understand the Muslim hatred of the West, and fewer who understand our distrust of the Muslims.
And that regardless where you stand on the port deal, the port deal controversy should never have happened. Somebody dropped the ball there.

[Constantine XIII]

I bang my head upon the wall in sympathetic agreement. ><

[carton253]

The fact that you suspect that all Muslims will go on record to wish us dead seems pretty one brush to me.

I agree the Port Deal has handled badly, but I blame the Congress... their behavior this week makes all the jokes about politicians pretty valid.

[Constantine XIII]

When the hell did the adminstration PROPOSE this deal?

DPW bought out the British company, and all the administration did is say "You don't look like the kind of people who blow stuff up, so we're OK with that."

Learn what you're talking about before you go around throwing names and CAPITALIZING things.

[carton253]

I think it is a bit more complicated than that...

[Graymatter]

The fact that you suspect that all Muslims will go on record to wish us dead seems pretty one brush to me.

It is NOT a fact, it is not what I wrote and it is not what I think. I must have expressed myself poorly. Hope this clears it up.

[buck61]

It will come back to bite America in the A**.
You don't allow Chinese on one coast to do port business and turn another nationality away from another coast. Dubai will gradually be investing in other country's, America is not so great that it can't fall.
Now all those Dubai haters lets see you do something about China. Dubai is nowhere the size of China and, if you think China has a great love for America than you are deceived. All one has to do is watch China in the coming weeks with the UN
applying restrictions on Iran, it aint going to happen.

[carton253]

Good...