These UAE supporters are being good dhimmis without even knowing it, then chew us out for bringing it to their attention!
Who was it that said, "you are going to sell us the rope we hang you with"??
Even one ME country that will do business, including welcoming the US Navy, is a plus. Losing such, especially as they need not have been driven off so pointedly, makes the task that much harder.
I agree, by the way some speak, one would think we just lost our best ally in the WOT, and our economy is going to collapse. As far as potentially losing a key future staging ground for an attack on Iran...we will have a much better coalitition for an Iran than we did for Iraq, should an "event" occur.
I am very glad that this deal will not happen, and hope that the UAE could understand why Americans were concerned about the deal, they should be able to realize why we were concerned.