What will it do to our WOT in the ME if we lose support from the UAE who provide...
The biggest US Naval port outside the Continental U.S.
The only ME Arab country that gives us intelligence and operatives in the ME.
Use of their airbases.
The biggest, cleanest and safest R&R base for our troops in the ME.
Has troops with our special forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Has people in Iraq helping train up Iraqi police and military personnel.
Has 500 American companies doing business on their soil.
Sells us lots of oil. (We haven't converted to switch grass yet.)
They're greedy. The loss of one business deal won't change that.
If it were true that the future of our relationship with them depends on this deal, as y'all claim, that could only mean one thing anyway: We've already given them far more power than is healthy.