I wonder if the UAE will deny our troops passage when we go after iran?
That's been the typical, historical response of our other islamic "allies", so it wouldn't be surprising.
The more I think about this UAE deal, the more I smell a rat. At first the WH apologists were screaming that the UAE's P & O company was one of the very few in the world that could handle such a big maritame task, and that there were no U.S. companies up to the job. (In fact FR's landscape was littered with this excuse). Then, almost in the same breath, they began claiming this is merely a paper shuffling deal, an ownership takeover that will not change any port operations or bring in new personnel. Put the two lame excuses together and you find that they're claiming that the UAE is one of the few companies on earth that has the ability to purchase P & O for 6.8 billion dollars.
Either the UAE maritime company is going to be performing the physical work and all of which that consists of "because they are one of the few companies in the world qualified to do it", or they're just going to be reaping the profits of a corporate ownership transfer. They can't have it both ways.
I'm seeig the proof right before my eyes that the penguin mentality is contageous and can be passed on to human beings; as I watch the bots fall over the cliff one-by-one in blind obedience to whatever mistakes are made in the WH. (oops, did I say the WH can make a mistake? Shame on me).