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Cooperation from Europe on the Iran issue is much more important right now then opening old wounds and wasting political capital on proving the WMD issue.

Makes sense to me!

And we need to get the cooperation of the UAE...also...

"And we need to get the cooperation of the UAE...also..."
We have had cooperation with the UAE. The USA has pumped more money into that country to build their infrastructure then any other country most likely. And they have for the most part been quite graceous in accepting our help. At least from a government, banking, industrial point. Of course if we did not get to them in a big way first, then the Russkies, French, etc., would have. At any rate, this sale of the port operations to their companies has me a bit bothered to say the least. As has been voiced elsewhere within this posting, how can we be so sure, once in place, they cannot play games to trick the security folks. After all they will be running the port operations. Things can be arrranged. It only takes a few nukes passing through in containers that somehow sneak by any inspection process then to be hidden then moved at appropriate times to some of our major cities. With Arabs in direct control of operations surely some employees are going to arrange things in the future. It is like giving a kid a loaded gun.
And to much emphasis is being placed on the abilities of our current port security operations. It appears we have a long way to go to actually run a clean operation. So much passes through that never gets checked. Thousands of containers come in ever day into our ports. Huge areas stacked with containers of all types carrying all types of things.
How easy it could be for Ali Babba to slip a few in undetected.