Posted on 02/21/2006 11:10:13 PM PST by antaresequity
So it's not just the UAE we have to worry about, or the illegals, but Union Workers are now all Manchurian Candidates, ready to truck in weapons to destroy us because, well, they just don't care, them union guys, they're all unamerican thugs who don't give a crap if 9-11 happens again in their cities?
Please.
not all things appear to be what they are..
and with that note.
a G'nite BumP for the road.
If you want more non-hysterical analysis, you should check out this site, he has three very enlightening pieces.
Port Deal Short Sightedness Runs Amok
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1376
What Is Port Operations?
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1368
‘Operations’ Is Not ‘Control’
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/1370
Good post...and...I hope we don't become 'too' nuanced in understanding the Middle East...I much prefer the iron fist approach...
OK who is our enemy. Do you think the rulers of places like the UAE and a good percentage of the populance that parties like wild in Europe and in the Worlds Club Meds want to see us destroyed. I am not buying it. I am under no illusion that the 5 million people of the UAE have huge ambitions to control us all. They are being smart by not putting all their eggs on oil. Thats a good thing.
Sounds like the 'moderate' version of Islam that the West could concieveably coexist with, and something worth promoting vs the jihadist bunch.
Well, Russia and China have "Christian" churches too, but that doesn't mean they should handle port operations in the U.S.
There's no getting around the fact that two 9/11 terrorists came from the UAE. And please don't post your picture of the shoe bomber from the UK. He certainly doesn't look British to me.
This is just not a wise move. It's clear where UAE's sympathies lie--they follow Muslim law.
Perhaps somebody should ping Mark Levin on this one. He might find it interesting.
"So it's not just the UAE we have to worry about, or the illegals, but Union Workers are now all Manchurian Candidates, ready to truck in weapons to destroy us because, well, they just don't care, them union guys, they're all unamerican thugs who don't give a crap if 9-11 happens again in their cities?
Please."
no, incompetent.
Normal winter weather in the Northern Plains this last few days. (It has been unusually warm). Most up here heat with natural gas.
A place (on land) to park the THEL?
"Britain is friendly now, but could fall into dangerous hands.
Canada is friendly now, but could fall into dangerous hands.
Do you see where I'm going with this?"
How about....the United States is friendly now, but could fall into dangerous hands.
And W's energy policy is another of those pieces--something else greeted with disdain here when he announced it, and for which he got that nice announcement form the Saudis about upping refining capacity.
It's not the just the MSM and Democrats who misunderestimate W, apparently. I'm not all in on this or saying any of this is the real deal, but as the hours pass, the hysterics who were screaming "Treason!" earlier today seem to have gone into a more thoughtful mode.
We cant base a whole forign policy on the fact that 2 of the 911 bombers were from the UAE. I am not sure what the percentage is but 2 people out of a population of 5 million doesnt mean much to me. I am not saying there the only bad guys there but there not the majority at all. I mean 2 guys from the UAE were 911 hijackers versus UAE giving us land for bases and other operations. What proves more?
LOL! OK, on THAT we may have some common ground...
I seat at the strategic middle east table in a never ending game of musical chairs...
Plus...if we attack Iran...and UAE is an ally...and Iran attacks UAE...
WE CAN PULL THE DAMN GLOVES OFF and we have successfully bifurcated any attempt by Iran to cast this as a Western vs Arab conflict...
Duh...
Check out Michelle Malkin's most recent column. She has tracked the funding for this purchase.
Of course nothing's as it first seems, but not to be able to decipher the dangerous position that the US has voluntarily put itself into is just inexcusable.
And that is Mexico, that is a ally and a border! (this doesn't actually deal with WHO is streaming across the border...), but to import an Arab owned company to have anything to do with our security is TOTAL IRRESPONSIBILITY.
If anything shows that Pres. Bush is living in a different reality than the American people it is this decision.
Actually I believe reid's mother was British and his father Jamacain, but I guess that he was born and raised in Britain doesn't pass your SS like purity test.
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