I'll be damned if I let the media stampede me on this issue, especially when I find out that the whole flapdoodle has been orchestrated by the longshoremen, and when Tommy Franks supports this as he has had dealings with UAE intelligence and values their support.
Michelle Malkin specializes in stirring up xenophobia. I don't care if she is insulted by it and thinks that is spin; it is the truth. If she isn't ranting about immigration she is criticizing the President because he isn't anti-Arab enough.
Pfui. I don't think she is that great a writer, either.
I'll give her credit on one thing though...she doesn't look anorexic.
She gets good ratings and advertising dollars when she goes off like this too.
What I haven't seen anyone that is opposed to this deal explain is:
Why would a foreign entitey, Dubai/UAE in this case, make a multi billion dollar investment in a country and then support terrorist coming into it and doing damage, blowing things up, killing the infrastructure such that they now have no place to market the goods they are importing... Surely they don't think that Dubai/UAE is going to come into the US and use terrorist to take over the country via a conflict or bring it too its knees?
Have you seen any explainations why they think the Dubai/UAE group would want this country destroyed after making such a huge investment?
He was a staunch ally of the U.S. and tried hard to keep Islamic extremism at bay in a modern Iran where Islam was the predominant religious power.
When he and his lovely wife left Tehran in 1979 and flew to Aswan in Egypt and exile, I realized he had failed. But in 1978 I would have had no problem with one of his companies doing what the UAE wants to do today. History now shows that I would have been wrong. Who ever thought in 1979 that Iran would become the country it is today?
The government powers that be in the UAE or any other Arab nation that has a majority Islamic population only stay in power at the whims of the Religious Mullahs in the Mosques. The Arab street get their marching orders from their religious leaders, as we see time after time in one Arab country after another.
Iran is such an example to the world. If the Shah could not hold power against the Moslem street why should we believe a smaller even more Islamic compromised country would? The UAE is not the problem. Islam is. If we do "business as usual" with "moderate" Islamic governments we remove the incentive for them to eradicate the fundamentalist elements of that religion. Something I'm not sure they want to do or could do even if they wanted to.