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This should be shouted through the airwaves. Where are all the weenies who were scared of Dubai Ports Corporation handling container ships?
They are letting our enemies take over our nation - WITHOUT A FIGHT1
No problem. We can count on McCain, Warner and Graham to pass a law protecting us from these people.
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Yet of the Saudi students: But don’t expect millions of us to like it — and don’t expect us to worry whether our anger and concern seem illiberal.
And that has... nothing to do with the hysterical and irrational fear present in the reaction to the Dubai port deal
When you don't like it that's apparently illiberal, when the other guy doesn't like it that's hysterical and irrational.
Sorry, no sale. The Saudis will make damn sure those boys don't do anything that results in an American invasion and Ceegar Guy rolling up to the Meccan meteorite with a winch and a glint in his good eye. The open society guys (Dubai ports deal) are too busy making money (nttawwt) to do any serious quality control on the people they send here.
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Many of the current Saudi leaders have been educated in Europe and the US. It is a good thing. Also, the reality is that the worldly Saudis live two distinct lives, one in the Kingdom and the other while living in the West. The only way we are going to influence what is going on in the Kingdom is to encourage more contact with the West.
This incisive question has no legitimate answer.
As long as the DimoRats keep us dependant on Arab oil, our national security will be in much jeopardy.
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"Many Americans are not convinced that our magnanimity with the Islamic world wins praise as liberality, rather than earning contempt for our perceived weakness. "
Exactly. While the left claims to be multicultural, in reality they fail to respect this basic cultural difference.
"Why is America so much richer and stronger than the Arab world, when it is clearly more decadent and godless?"
Besides the conspiracies which VDH lists as typical answers to this question, I think there is another core belief in the muslim world which extremists use as a recruitment tool; that the muslim world has gotten away from following true islam (read: extreme, fundamentalist, sharia-law, cover-all-women-in-burkas type of islam) and therefore the muslim world has seen a great decline in prosperity and strength.