I knew little about it beforehand and learned much during the debate. From what I understand it is not the UK itself but a private UK company which currently performs the operations in question (whether that be terminals, ports, or what have you). If it were the UK government itself, I would not love that idea, but the relationship we have with the UK is still far far different that that which we have with the UAE.
Yes and that is the sticky part. We are advocating one ally over another and granted GB has been a trusted ally longer. But we trust but verify our navy in UAE and we need to have allies in the Mid East unless of course we kill every man, woman and child in the Mid East, which I doubt even the purest of the pure would honestly advocate.