[Echo Talon]

Are you justifying Dubai withholding intel because of a business deal gone wrong? If they aid the enemy they become the enemy and will be treated as such. I don't think they are willing to give up their kingdom over a port deal. They not only would lose face but a little ass too.

Intel works off cooperation, why would they help us in this area when we don't help or even treat them fairly in others.

[blaquebyrd]

"Intel works off cooperation"

Damn right it does. Don't think our military is being allowed to use their ports and bases out of the goodness of their hearts. They are getting something out of the deal. They wanted the ports deal and the American public didn't. For whatever reason that's what it boils down to. Sell 'em a Pizza Hut or a Starbucks or something. In a post 911 world the American public just isn't ready for this deal no matter how many times they are called dumb, stupid, uninformed racists.