"I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work."
Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
They're not ignorant...they're blatantly anti-mid east. IT doesn't matter if friend or foe, if they're arab they've got to go. Some would call it racism. I would too. It's sick and sad and sets up for continued losses for the GOP.
Yes, I tend to agree that we ought to be promoting a strong relationship with the UAE. Their population seems to be rather on the fence between civilization and radical Islam, but I think the government/ruling family are really on the side of civilization, and doing their best to nudge their masses in the right direction.
If we had absolutely awesome security at our ports, there would be a better argument for a policy against allowing any degree of control by governments of foreign countries with shaky loyalties. However, with the infamous Department of Homeland Security having a lot of responsibility for port security, with or without DP taking over operational/managerial control, and Chinese and Saudi companies having similar control over other U.S. ports, it's pretty hard to justify the avalanche of opposition to the proposed arrangement with DP.
This whole thing is starting to look like a bipartisan conspiracy to build a pre-election (2006) smokescreen, behind which to hide the miserable state of the federal government's national security programs, for which both parties bear plenty of responsibility. I also strongly suspect that the UAE government provided some assurances to Bush administration officials, that have not been and cannot be made public, due to popular political sensitivities in the UAE. I'm willing to accept that we can't know all the details, and that if Condi isn't against it, it's almost certainly fine to proceed. If she were against it, I think President Bush would have back-pedalled fast when the firestorm first hit.
Seriously, a good Christian man doesn't do business this way. He does what he says, says what he does and what he does is not full of moneyed, buy your friends deals.
If America can only survive with dark side money games, I tell you today that America has already fallen. The Lord tells us (heavy paraphrase) "It matter not who watches the walls, if the Lord is not on their side".
LOL!
I am!
I would trust a Muslim like I would trust a rattlesnake. These people have more money than brains. Boeing should be glad to be rid of them because, no doubt, down the line they'd sue Boeing for some glitch in the manufacturing of the airliners and want all their money back.
Not even close. Did the fact that the UAE is despotic ("family-run") escape your notice? The most "Europeanized" country in the ME is Israel, followed by Turkey, Lebanon, and now Iraq.
Hon, if you honestly believe that, you need to take an economics course immediately.
Yeah I know I typod when I wrote it. feel free to ignore the underlying thought.
"I thought you said a massive global trade war was not even possible?"
Wow. you keeping score? I don't remember so I must peruse my ramblings and get back with you.
Yes. There's a thread right now that the UAE agreed to monitor Iran. I just left a message on the thread that they agreed to that before. I'm sure that's a dead issue now.
Only because EUrabia is swiftly becoming another outpost of a revived Caliphate.
Believe me, that's not an endorsement.
Far from it.
Look at it this way...
WHO exactly, stands to gain by embarrassing the President?
Hillary.
that's why Chuckie Schumer is taking such a big cheerleading role in this. He knows he won't be President, but he probably figures HIllary has a chance.
way to go.
and it isn't splitting both parties. The dems played this CORRECTLY. They turned the right wing and the GOP in on itself and now they are watching the explosion.
They've engineered the GOP into supporting a position that hurts us both Strategically (losing an ally and believe me that ally is now gone unless something drastic happens) and Tactically (another port in the storm is gone, possibly some big aircraft contracts as well as a LOT of money that would have come into our economy).
Bad Day. FReepers are aligned with Chuck Schumer. As IF HE'S EVER given a damn about the Military or the country.
Hmmmmmmmm?????
No, we've allowed globalist greed to interfere with sound decision-making related to national security. It never should have reached the point where we got in a pissing war over whether or not some Islamic nation was going to be managing our port operations. The fact that there was ever even a need for this debate is preposterous.
Where are the statesmen that used to put our country's interests foremost. Now they just have kneejerk reactions for their own election interests. At least Bush is a Statesman. He may be wrong sometimes, but, I believe he puts the his country's interests above his own. When he vetoes this bill it will be the right thing to do, but he is going to really get hurt politically.
You are correct, Peach.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20050604-120011-6570r.htm
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