Neither apparently can the U.A.E. Sorry, I had to say that.
Funny, isn't it, the privileges that money can buy?
Lol.
It's amazing, innit?
Back in 1980, IRAQ could do no wrong. The U.S. backed Sadaam Hussein, a KNOWN monster in the area. I was living in the area at the time. The Arabs and other Mulsims could NOT understand why the U.S. was backing, financing and arming such a KNOWN terrorist monster. He had been murdering, looting and torturing his own people since the mid-70's.
He had risen to power on the back of successful assassination after successful assassination. You know, he's the first and only Iraqi president NOT to have been assassinated while in power.
There HAD to have been another way to "get back" at Iran.
After 9 long fruitless years of stalemate fighting, where only the weapons merchants got STINKING rich, Iraq had to sue the Iranians for peace. The Iranians were JUBILENT, as they had fought back the U.S.-backed, -financed and -armed Iraqi army. MUD on our face, yet again.
And, then, one year later, that same Butcher of Baghdad, extremely well-armed by you-know-who, invaded Kuwait.
And here we are, 15 years later, STILL fighting.
Iraq could do no wrong.
At LEAST, the U.A.E. are itsy-bitsy, peaceful desert emirates (That would be tribes.) who have no modern record of the monstronsities of the still-alive-and-screaming-kicking Butcher of Baghdad and his Baath Party.
CHINA does have a modern-day history of heinous slaughter and human rights abuses.....and we are yet backing another monster-based regime--this one COMMUNIST to boot.
Makes me wonder sometimes about our foreign policy.