Don't you understand? Every single topic, regardless of what it is, has to have something to do with BORDERS.
It's a question about the very huge area of trust, to entrust a leader to be leading with our security in mind. The border insecurity, the illegal alien unremedied problem (11-13 million and growing, if not more, at this point, in the country and Bush's 'solution' is to offer them a "Guest Worker" status and other incentives to remain here and to entice even more to arrive here)...the ongoing statements about border security being managed well while actual observations and experiences by law enforcement on and in border areas tells us otherwise, and much more...
All these things add up to a growing mistrust if not an opinion of unreliability or even untrustworthiness on the actual, nitty gritty details of "security" -- if we're so concerned about the "feelings" and "resentments" of places like Mexico and UAE and elsewhere that the nation is held to their accountability while those concerns by Americans are not heeded...
All these things add up to and have resulted in a growing disbelief in the credibility of the statements about security and related coming out of the Bush Administration. Miers' nomination and the current ICE head appointment have done a great deal, also, to reduce the confidence level among Republicans as to expectation of improvement or responsiveness.
Combined with the a number of other thins, but primarily, there is increasing lack of security in the intentions for security...and this UAE deal that sanctions, for lack of a better word, a nation known to fellowship WITH terrorists and to commisserate with terrorist ideology and Muslim rule, to be blunt, this is upsetting and rightfully concerning.
The entire field of national security is the "relationship" between the border concerns and this UAE Port Deal.
All President Bush would have to do, to a great degree, is explain himself more and more often and prior to these mega-influencing issues. But he doesn't do that and then chastises voters for even asking him to.
O.K. I recognize that not all of us has a penchant for public speech and seeks disclosure, some even very uncomfortable with sharing much if at all. I can, and do, respect that.
But these are huge issues. They affect the very lives of Americans. I know they do mine. We have no nation without national security and Islam is most definitely motivated on a course that seeks to eradicate most, if not all, of Western culture and certainly Jews and Christians (and Hindus, and...). Their entire course of ideology is based upon not only their demise inorder to reach their concept of an afterlife, but also to bring about the demise of others not of their ideology inorder to do that very thing.
End spiel about that.
The significant thing is that "Sharia law" as finance process and plan of the UAE -- their plan, their goal -- is inconsistent with the West.
And, our nation is founded on laws. The very nature of our capitalist representational government is that we are a country of laws. The illegal alien problem and the failed border security problem defy that founding, cornerstsone principle of the U.S. People who indulge it, even tolerate it, or worse, participate in it are literally declaring an disregard for the very founding principle of the country.
There are many, many Americans who think as I do. This Port Deal is literally a "ping" to terrorists and disorder, from a Western perspective, just as are the problematic border security/illegal alien population issues.