What will we do then? Where does that leave our Ports?
Dubai is the most liberal of the Emirates, the others are much more ... shall we say, not. Let's do the deal right. Neither side is desperate.
The US needs to know what will happen if an anti-American sheik takes over Dubai. And that could easily happen.
What will we do then? Where does that leave our Ports?
Dubai is the most liberal of the Emirates, the others are much more ... shall we say, not. Let's do the deal right. Neither side is desperate.
The same thing happens to the ports that happened to German-owned properties in WW2
Yes, that's a point frequently lost on the "Bush-can-do-no-wrong" crowd here.
That area of the world is not particularly stable. There's certainly no guarantee (and in my mind, not even a good chance) that the UAE will be pro-American for the foreseeable future.