Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/cole1.htm
http://www.cargolaw.com/2000nightmare_cole.html
Aden, Yemen is where the Cole was attacked.
Hmm. You both seem to be making this same baseless argument. I can't tell whether you are both paroting the Wiener Nation or not, because he's the only talking head I know uninformed enough to make this argument. Allow me to school you:
1) The UAE does not depend on us for security. We depend on it for the security of our mildly armed Naval vessels and unarmed combat personel visiting their nation.
2) Saudi Arabia faces much greater internal threats than the UAE that their royals have fostered. Yet they depend so little on the US for security that they have thrown the US military off of it's territory (the same military the UAE royals welcomed.)
3) The UAE royals would not be a target of any jihadist at all had they not reached out and allied with us and stayed loyal to us.
This is no way to treat a friend. You knee-jerk anti-arabists are just as bad as the knee-jerk anti-semites like Buchanan and Novak. It DOES NOT MATTER what they have done for us or what they are doing for us, all that matters to you guys is that they are 'sand niggers' and your brain shuts off.
But now it seems that Arabs, or I guess at least those who live in the UAE are our butt buddies and we just can't do enough for them after everything they have done for us. So I would suppose that also means the Muslims, those in the UAE at least, are no longer an evil religion, or maybe just partly evil, but then, well like I said, I'm just confused now.
Bullsh*t.
I dare you to find one, even one speech or statement by President Bush saying "Arabs" are our enemies. Most people here are clued in to the difference between an ideology and a race. The people on this thread who are trashing Arabs are doing so as a fringe.
You are also totally off the mark, because both Iraq and Afghanistan are ALLIES. That was a big point in the WOT.
You are not confused, you are a troll.
Well, I certainly won't deny there is some truth to that at least with the most fundamentalist segments.
It could be said that the muslims that I personally know might be viewed as apostates by the more "devout" or fundamentalist muslims.
The muslims I know view themselves as Americans, and seem not much different in many respects. Their children are westernized, and so on. Granted, the circle I know is no more than a handful, all are well educated.
But it gives hope to me that change is possible with muslims.
See post 1672 where I publicly admitted MY mistake.
Not being snarky either. Sorry if it might have sounded that way.
But in any case, my point is that that article, no matter when it might have come out, was before Dubai said they were going to sell off the US portion of the purchase.
Which makes it very old news indeed.
Events move quickly these days.
Boy, ain't that the truth
ROFLMAO.............Flouride Wars! Excellent!
As Margaret Carlson said on Hardball tonight, "You can't just ask ONE Of them to leave."
Hunter Duncan's bill is going to be a TREMENDOUS boondoggle for this country.
That about sums it up.
Haven't we heard THAT before.......LOL.
Not exactly. This thread and the one I linked were posted today before the latest announcement as well. It seemed like you came into this thread acting like we should have been clairvoyant to that one point, not snark, just pointing out the timeline. The latest announcement does not, however, change what came before it and what was discussed or is still being discussed.
Don't you just HATE it when that happens and you end up being raked over the coals for the next thousand or so posts?
:-)
I never read the article. If you don't like the discussion don't participate.
You should spend a day or two in some of these immigration threads on FR.
Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, took an unusual step for a military leader Thursday, criticizing opposition to the attempted purchase of some U.S. port operations by a Dubai-owned company, calling it "Arab and Muslim bashing."
He said the United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a part, is vital to the military's stake in the Persian Gulf region. The Navy heavily uses the port there.
"I am very dismayed by the emotional responses that some people have put on the table here in the United States that really comes down to Arab and Muslim bashing that was totally unnecessary,"
Maybe what killed the port deal was the sheer ludicrousness of port deal apologists talking like Guardian columnists decrying 'islamophobia' and 'anti-Arab racism'. When the American people heard this nonsense they smelled generous applications of petrodollar grease.
The UAE is not a country. It is the private property of one man. A mortal man. A man who spent a lot of money greasing a lot of people in Washington so a deal would go through. But it failed. It failed because the American people did not have a price and were not willing to be sold.
I saw him say it; he looked furious.
They didn't want to listen to Tommy Franks, so why would they listen to him?
Blowback is gonna be H E L L.
Sure. Why not? The test isn't "consistency," is it?
Pathetic (but entertaining) performance all around.
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