[KJC1]

They certainly are evil . They allow liquor and gambling and even churches to operate openly!!!

And they have an evil yet strong tourism industry. Imagine what "allowing" an attack through DPW at one of our ports would do for tourism! Why, the masses of Westerners would flock there twofold from what they do now. Sheesh. I'm going to Dubai next month, and am not looking forward to the correct comments that we are idiots on this issue, but at least Bush wasn't a shortsighted fool. I'm not one to take criticism of the U.S. lightly while visiting foreign nations, but on this one I'm not going to be able to offer a reasonable explanation.

[Solson]

Gee...someone with knowledge of their country. Perhaps you can share that with the bumpkins around here thinking the UAE is just another sand desert with tents and camels, no big cities, no modern conveniences and run by folks who live in nomadic tribes and crap on the floor of their homes.

I'd love to know the percent of people on this thread that have ever engaged in business with a foreign based company. From the looks of it, it cannot be many.