"I have asked the question 5 times to different pro-port freepers - would you allow the UAE, or even the Saudis, to buy the WTC site? not one of them has answered."
What part of the UAE is buying NOTHING don't you and others understand??? I'm sorry to sound snappish but DARNIT, they will continue to LEASE the port space the company they are buying did.
they are buying the contracts for port operations.
the basis for the question is not to compare the buying of an operations contract, to the buying of the lease at the WTC (the government owns the land there too). the idea is - if you believe the rejection of the UAE is based on religious bigortry, then I ask you, would you allow them to buy the lease at the WTC site? if your answer is no, then tell us what the basis would be for that rejection?