Then explain why the Pentagon is comfortable docking Navy ships at Dubai.Correct me if I'm wrong, but, wasn't the military comfortable docking in port of Aden, Yemen, where the USS Cole bombed? Was the Pentagon comfortable having Marines in Beirut when 241 of them were murdered in their barracks.
The pentagon ain't always right.
No, I believe the administration in power at the time kind of forced that on the Navy and the Marines in Beirut were most decided not comfortable. That is not to say the Pentagon is always right but in this case I will add I was never worried while moored in Jebel Ali (port in the UAE).