RE: Now that Obama has turned 911 into a day of service the “One World Trade Center” was built by volunteers and stands as a testament to America’s new greatness ...
I can understand your sarcasm but....
Let’s put things in perspective before we get too carried away with Arab Grandeur as opposed to America’s decline.
The Dubai tower is NOT a ‘ Dubai’ or Arab achievement. It is of course an AMWERICAN achievement, designed and constructed by Chicago’s Skidmore Owings & Merrill, the architects who designed and built Chicago’s Sears Tower, now known as the Willis Tower and still the highest building in the United States.
So much for Arabic glory & grandeur.
Dubai is of course not doing all that well financially either, as its sovereign fund wobbled & collapsed forcing a $25 billion loan from wealthier neighbor Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi has chosen of course to become an educational mecca in the Middle East.
How? HECK, By inviting the USA’s best academic communities, including Harvard, Stanford, Cleveland Clinic Mayo Clinic and others to open branch campuses there.
The Arabs can accomplish NOTHING or LITTLE without outside help. Even their construction workers, engineers etc. are mostly imported from overseas ( Filipino technicians make up a huge portion of them ).
Taipei 101 the world’s SECOND tallest building, incidentally, was designed and constructed by local firm C.Y. Lee & Co, in Tawan. Now THAT is something their locals can be proud of.