[Eagles2003]

“Arabs Buying Out Collapsing Western Banks”

And this is new?

[agere_contra]

and General Motors with six days' worth.

Sell GM to the Arabs? I know this is war, but that's just inhuman.

[onedoug]

islamism

[Proud_USA_Republican]

ask the japanese how all that overpaying for american real estate worked out for them in the later 1980’s/early 90s and what it did to their own economy.

[RC2]

Why don’t we sell them Congress. Their useless anyway and maybe they’ll ruin their country as they have ours. They could also make Obama king.

[JerseyHighlander]

"The energy, financial and political woes that grip the U.S. signal a decisive shift in world power, mocking the liberal delusion that Barack Obama or John McCain can return American prestige and power to its pre-Bush year 2000 nirvana," he wrote. "There is no such nirvana. There is instead a new reality: the greatest transfer of income in human history [and] the rise of a new breed of wealthy autocracies that cripple U.S. hopes of dominating the global system and demands on the U.S. to make fresh compromises in a world where power is rapidly being diversified."

It's getting hard to argue against this point. Capital crosses over borders, or armies do. Unfortunately the US is reaching the point of pre-Armada Spain, where the capital to raise an army to cross a border is debasing the currency. If we have some economic shock, similar to the sinking of the treasure ships of 1502, or the sinking of the Armada (something aking to strikes on Iran not working out as planned), and the US is going to be reeling.

[count-your-change]

“However, Abu Dhabi’s’ director of international affairs, Yousef al Otaiba, has reassured American officials that its purchase of Citibank will not be used to exert political pressure on the U.S. He wrote the Treasury Department, “It is important to be absolutely clear that the Abu Dhabi government has never and will never use its investment organizations or individual investments as a foreign policy tool.”
That’s a great comfort. Really!? No.

[Paleo Conservative]

I’m sure they’ll institute islamic banking practices and abolish interest on loans.

[wac3rd]

Stop buying oil - what’s left?

UN Aid, sand and mosques.