[Sweetjustusnow]

" so that we can maintain an Ally for the moment"

You tell me by the votes of this so called "ally" at the U.N. and the shipment of arms and nukes through the ports of Dubai to Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, etc. and the libbing of Madeline Albright, Tom Dashle, Clinton, Dole and others to push this stinking buy out of our Country to people who want to see this country in a smoking putrid abyss that you consider these people an ally? You have got to be kidding me. Are you a conservative patriot? Or have you bought the Globalization of the USA in which any country, never mind that they desire our destruction can buy we the people out? This is our country. I didn't vote to sell off our port control to the UAE. Did you?

[Sweetjustusnow]

"libbing" Should be Lobbying.....must have been a freudian slip.

[wickedpinto]

The UN has nothing to do with it. It is a sub sect of an ideology that hates us, a sub sect that is willing to ally with us, ALSO, we have fundamental sovereignty, if at any moment, we distrust their actions we can cancel the contract; however, at the moment, they are allies, and we should absorb the bad press by those who are willing to hate muslims when it comes to doing a pissant job (and it IS a pissant job) but we should assuage IDENTIFIABLE terrorists when it comes to cartoons?

I think the the administration made the right TACTICAL move, based on a larger STRATEGIC goal.

I can get pissed off about anything, if I shrink it down to the moment, but this is a LARGE nation, with a LOT of problems. There might be concerns, but other than additional supervision, the only other option is betraying our own ideal's, OR deciding that we should kill everyone with a koran.