[KJC1]

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.

Your username fits you well.

What sunk the deal was a truckload of bogus information. Selling the ports. Security turned over. UAE supports the Taliban. You probably know the list well.

You will never catch me being an apologist for Islamists, EVER. I am also not a braindead moron who would happily crap on an important ally, in a crucial position at a critical time. Do you want to win the WOT? If the answer is no, then you make total sense.

[Sam the Sham]

The American people intelligently do not share your confidence in 'allies' where a corrupt elite sides with us and the man in the street hates us. How 'allied' would Egypt be if it had a fair election ? Just as the Europeans realize that their Muslims will not be assimilated by secularism, socialized medicine, and the dole, so the American people realize that money hasn't got one damn thing to do with the problems of people sitting on top of the richest cash cow on this planet.

The entire assumption that Muslims are 'just like us' and 'want the same things we do' is collapsing in the face of facts throughout the Western world.

The Emir of Dubai does business with us and thinks he can bribe any politician in Washington. But he is not an ally. Nations are allies. We made this same mistake with Imperial Iran where we had an alliance with the Shah.