there are plenty of other profitable US industries in which they could invest, or purchase outright, across a wide range of industries. and for 95% of those, no questions regarding the purchase would be asked.
No, my dear (I think you are female, I could be wrong, if so, so sorry). Why do you have this THING that the UAE was looking for an investment in the USA? Let me clue you in. They were looking for the best bang for their buck. If the company that is doing the deal has a lot of infrastructure and expertise in port management it would naturally look for a similar company to acquire.
What do you think a billion dollars does? It looks for investments. It looks for good investments. That is all that is at work here. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
We have told the Arab states that their oil is good enough for us to buy but their money is not good enough to invest in our country.
Let me tell you something. We are going to pay a sad and deep price for this stupidity. We were winning the war and the philosophical argument, especially with the Iraqis. But now we have people like you and a lot of others on this thread who are missing the point big time and have won the argument. The deal is dead.
So now we have to explain to these countries that we are trying to convert to freedom that we will not trade with them. What is freedom if it isn't the ability to conduct commerce to make money? To tell them that we want them to be a free republican government but that we won't be a party to their wealth creation is absolutely and unequivocably the STUPIDIST thing I have ever witnessed on Free Republic. You are an abettor in a crime.
wow, I'm scared now. the "we will pay a heavy price for daring to stand up against our UAE overlords" boogeyman.
let's see who the UAE turns to, a country where 50 iranian patrol boats and a few brigades of their soliders can take their "arab kingdom" down in 2 hours without the presence of the US military there.
Total, and Complete B.S.