[ScreamingFist]

So your idea of a friendship is that it is purely a one way street, that you can insult a friend, slander their reputation, and threaten their economic interests and they should just bend over and take it? So the UAE is suppose to buy Boeing's passenger jets and give the US Navy unlimited use of its ports and we pay that back by kicking them in the a** and if they don't say "Thank you sir, may I have another?" then they're not true friends? I would suggest sir that it is the US that is not a true friend. If your idea of friendship is to screw over a friend and then declare them disloyal when they don't just sit back and take it, then I am glad we're not friends.

Laughable. The US Navy has access to Dubai because they pay for use and because the deal was greased by the worlds most sophisticated F-16, the UAE Block 60.

The UAE will buy the Boeing jets because they're a better product, if they don't the UAE is just cutting off their own nose.

The UAE deals in profit, not nancy pansy ideals such as friendship.....that's why they support the elimination of Israel and 80% of them have a dis-favorable view of Americans in Iraq.

Any other silly premises?

[countess]

These Dubai lovers weren't screaming about the need for ME pals when the Saudis kicked us out.