How does giving up our sovereignty constitute long term strategic thinking. You act like the UAE only allows us use of their ports on the condition that we give them our ports. Or that that will not be our friends if this deal goes south. Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia needs US. They need us to protect them from Iran, they need us to buy their oil, they need us to patrol their gulf, they need us to retain their grip on power from their masses. We do not need to give them the keys to our country. they need us more then we need them. We do have an entire country in the gulf now it is called Iraq, we do call the shots there and will for a long time.
We may not agree on this issue - but, you do make some cogent points on this post. Congratulations!
By continuing to spout the lie that this deal is tatamount to giving up our sovereignty you show yourself to be a person unable to look at this issue with intellectual honesty.
"They need us more then we need them. "
Then why in the hell would they BLOW UP OUR PORTS!???