But now it seems that Arabs, or I guess at least those who live in the UAE are our butt buddies and we just can't do enough for them after everything they have done for us. So I would suppose that also means the Muslims, those in the UAE at least, are no longer an evil religion, or maybe just partly evil, but then, well like I said, I'm just confused now.
Bullsh*t.
I dare you to find one, even one speech or statement by President Bush saying "Arabs" are our enemies. Most people here are clued in to the difference between an ideology and a race. The people on this thread who are trashing Arabs are doing so as a fringe.
You are also totally off the mark, because both Iraq and Afghanistan are ALLIES. That was a big point in the WOT.
You are not confused, you are a troll.
Maybe what killed the port deal was the sheer ludicrousness of port deal apologists talking like Guardian columnists decrying 'islamophobia' and 'anti-Arab racism'. When the American people heard this nonsense they smelled generous applications of petrodollar grease.
The UAE is not a country. It is the private property of one man. A mortal man. A man who spent a lot of money greasing a lot of people in Washington so a deal would go through. But it failed. It failed because the American people did not have a price and were not willing to be sold.