You seemed to be trying seriously hard to make the comment that UAE and Saudi Arabia are one in the same. Yeah, those folks all look the same, there must not be any difference...
Simply because a country has the outward trappings of a free market and capitalism does not mean that it is automatically a U.S. ally.
I have a question for all of the Dubai boosters on this thread.
You can make the argument that mainland China is more capitalist in nature right now than Norway.
Does that mean that the PRC is a more reliable, trustworthy ally than Norway?