Posted on 02/25/2006 3:00:55 AM PST by Cannoneer No. 4
Kabar,
I give up. I was only there for a few months between '99 and '00 though I had family there for years. I lived in the compound behind their WTC across from the prince's horse track. I'm sure you know the place. I drafted a long response to you but I trashed it. It serves no purpose. It goes way beyond religious freedom and you know exactly what I'm talking about. We both know if we sit down and write about what we can and can't do over there and how we can do what is allowed it doesn't amount to a hill of beans when you're talking about the freedoms western civilization has struggled for almost two thousand years to win. I just thought I owed you this. As I said, I give up. When you get really tired, and maybe a little old as I am, pigs with lipstick don't look so bad. I just won't go out with them.
Regards,
Cornpone
the ChiComs have the west coast ports...the unions have everything in between*~*
Aah the ever so silly "I'll invent a strawman to argue against instead of the actual position he holds."
You nailed it. In such a market they have to find a way to distinguish themselves. So knowing as they do their audience, they have to attempt a "rebel" stance...even if all they ended up doing here is following the herd.
I really enjoy Levin because HIS nastiness towards liberal callers is actually humorous, but it's disappointing how he went with the crowd in this case. True independence would be examining the actual facts and not CARING if that meant you were "with" the President or not.
It sure has been an interesting few days watching the kooks come out around here! I am happy, though, that no one who "argued" against the deal was a poster I'd head about before. Makes one suspicious--we need to put Philip Marlowe on the job.
What a silly rhetorical question. If you can't tell the difference, there's no helping you. So I'll just use your logic:
Italy and Japan were enemies during WW2--should we have not embraced them as economic and political partners after?
Who cares about Bush's legacy, I care about whether or not it's right to go through with this sale of the ports, and nothing I've seen makes me think we should not.
Oh that'll be Must-Miss Radio.
Savage commits the cardinal sin of radio: He's boring.
Sure. But Bush uses the WOT for everything now. Everything is about national security.
As for the sale I don't really care what Bush thinks. It's just a further erosion of our nation due to the sale to the highest bidder. It's not about national security to a lot of people - it's about money regardless of future consequences.
I'm afraid that the WOT right now IS everything just about because it's all so interconnected. The federal government has to get back to its core purposes, and one of those very few REAL reasons for existence is the security of those in the nation.
I'm not sure how old you are, but I work with teenagers, and have for some time, and I can tell you this: The WOT is to the coming generations what Pearl Harbor was to an earlier one. It's not about having a larger historical perspective vs. a personal one (in which history doesn't matter, just what *I* know from my life)--it's more about an emotional impact that's just never going to go away. And that's going to steer politics for the rest of my life, at least (I'm 40).
I was in Dubai two months ago.
Fear and ignorance is what this is all about.
I don't require anybody to applaud. Just quit whining.
Do we have any airports run by somebody other than ourselves?
I agree that we should run our own borders.
I don't know how you separate "security" from "allies." If it weren't for the security issues, we wouldn't need any allies.
some allies are more closely allied with us than others.
we gave stalin trucks during WW2, but we didn't let him run our ports.
a lot of it depends on how closely the interests of the 2 nations coincide, as well as the historical relationship betweeb the 2 countries.
"I love Michelle Malkin, but she's so very wrong in this case that it's not funny. Spreading hysterical nonsense about an ally doesn't help the WOT. In fact, she and others of her ilk have only helped the dems's efforts to promote a "Arabs = Enemies" fear, which sure isn't going to aid our fight."
I continue to love Michelle Malkin for being principled and honest to the core.
Spreading rumors that the UAE is an ally should be chargeable as treason.
Are we a friend of Israel or not? Does the UAE trade with Israel? If no, why not? The answer of course is no. The why is because they hate Israel and seek it's destruction. So exactly how can the UAE be our ally in the war on terror while privately seeking and promoting the destruction of Israel? That's some "ally."
In addition Dubai UAE is building the world's tallest skyscraper as a symbol of the twins we lost. Think about it.
Moreover, the UAE cannot possibly be a true ally when it was one of the few countries to proclaim the taliban as the govt of Afghanistan...and is a strong proponent of the hamas.
Methinks you should reconsider your allies. Now, I know they allow us flyover space and a landing strip, obviously that is better than having us determine them the true enemy they actually are...and making them our future target as we continue to prosecute the war on terror.
what exactly is your relationship with the government and business community in dubai?
And so many of "us" bought the Left's fear mongering, panicked, and jumped ship.
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