The UAE is cosmopolitan. This is the London of the Middle East. We don't have rioters here. Dubai is about making money. You don't know what you are talking about. I live here.
My little brother, a two-tour Iraq veteran, says that Dubai was far and away the American-friendliest place he visited in the ME.
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We don't have rioters here (in the UAE).
My question is this? Why not? Why are the radical Islamists NOT giving grief to the UAE? They are killing and rioting in all countries which support freedom and liberty. Why not your country?
I rest my point that our good relationship with the UAE cannot be guaranteed in the long run.
I might not have first-hand experience of living in the UAE like you do, but I have the common sense to know that 9-11 is a warning that the United States has enemies.
Only time will tell where the UAE will stand -- either for the U.S. or against the U.S.
And I don't think that while this question is up in the air, we should allow a company controlled by the UAE to operate our ports.