...Surely we have warriors that know that.. They must be being suppressed..
From my perspective as a relatively senior military officer (retired), fighters have not been suppressed, but they have not been promoted to positions of higher command and or have quit. But beyond that, our US military is subordinate to and controlled by US civilians and politicians.
Our current crop of politicians (in Congress) have so little knowledge of warfare yet so much control over how it is conducted. Frighteningly, a small but vocal lot in Congress have motives which are seditious, at best. That goes back to: HOW THIS WAR IS BEING FOUGHT IS A JOKE! War is conducted on and off the battlefield and is far more complex than volleys of rifle fire or aircraft bombing runs. The behavior of (some) Democrats, International Answer, Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, et al, is squandering American (and innocent Iraqi/Afghani) lives and treasure. They subvert the essential motivation of the US populace to succeed in this war, and continue to tease our enemy into the possibility of our untimely withdrawal.
And now back to Dubai and our seaports... FDR allied with Stalin and Communism (the greatest scourge of the 20th century) in order to defeat the Axis. We are today in a war no less dangerous than that of my father's, but this time allies are harder to come by. Dubai is far from perfect. But they have proved themselves reliable as our ally in this war and for that I don't care if they are Arabs, Muslims, or Martians. So what's it matter if our seaports go from being run by P&O, a British company, to Dubai Ports. I have much greater concern for the afore mentioned Americans continuing to run loose at the mouth (and run loose), than I do of a proven foreign ally administering our seaports.
The Chinese already control multiple docking sites in ports all over the western and eastern States.. not to speak of both ends of the Panama Canal.. As do several foreign entitys control docking sites in ALL our major airports..