Posted on 03/09/2006 9:02:17 AM PST by prairiebreeze
Oh, please; you were all about "how he can win this," how "he can still pull this out."
Denying that fact just makes you look like a poser.
You're so funny. On here singing the praises of those who 'sneer' at those who disagree with them, and then you have the gall to try and make it about me.
I don't even care to go to one of those tropical, artificial-read fake-islands being constructed by your hirsute, bejeweled friends in Dubai.
What I want is for them to stop traveling to, but most importantly, settling in, my country.
I don't want the United States to turn into a replica of EUrabia, and I don't want New York City to become Londonistan.
I'm merely pointing out that you were HAD, big time.
By a bunch of lies.
FGS, it's ALWAYS about you, EV. Every time somebody disagrees or questions you, you whine about personal attacks.
But I see on another thread, you're trashing George Allen's staff. Nice.
Go on over to that thread and refute me then.
Wrong. You make it that way at every opportunity. You have for over five years.
And as usual, it comes back to your personal vendetta against Alan Keyes.
99% of the time, if his name comes up on a thread I'm involved in, it is because you or one of your close friends bring him up.
Iwas talking to a young woman who works for a company who does business in Dubai, and she said that Dubai is simply planning to turn over control of the US ports to a US subsidiary of the original company, sort of like a straw company, to skirt all the political objections.
There hasn't been any threat. There has been nothing but LIES put out by the RATS and the deluded GOPer brainacs.
Thanks.
None of those oh so laudable intentions has anything to do with misindentifying people. Most Moslems identify themselves with their nation. It is true that the IslamoFascists do not but we are not dealing with that type in the UAE despite the LIES of the Antis to make it appear we are. But that is all they have is LIES.
Good---it's a first step......NOT doing business with us
I guess this will also end our relationship with the Dubai
thoroughbred "community", which would be an answered prayer of mine. Instructive that in the mouths of official Dubai you put the most guileless innocent and reasonable sounding words, and in the mouths of the American detractors the most overwrought, cartoony rhetoric. I think I know whose side you are on.
Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and West Bank don't consider people who engage in self-immolation missions that result in the deaths of scores of innocent people "terrorists," but that does not make it a valid judgment.
The headquarters of the Arab League-with the exception of a few years when Egypt was diplomatically isolated because of the first Camp David accords-was in Egyptian territory.
The United Arab Republic was comprised of two nations, Syria and Egypt.
The country that has both tacitly and explicitly supported genocide against non-Arabic ethnic groups in The Sudan and elsewhere is Egypt.
I suppose you could make an argument that Egypt is not an Arab country-and that there are still people who worship the pharoah-but then you would have to say the same thing about Lebanon, Syria, and almost every other country not located on the Arabian peninsula.
Whether a country becomes Arab through forced Arabization-as was the case with most of the conquests of Mohammed and succeeding caliphs-or is innately Arab-by lineage-is immaterial within this context.
You falsely removed the concept of nationality from anyone professing to be a Moslem. Thus my comment was entirely relevent. The rest of your yammering in this post IS irrelevent though.
I have never seen a more pointed attack on a major issue. Nor one expressed with more disgust at one side.
He clearly described the negative impact this will have on Port Security. And was outraged at this imbecility. He called it "stupid" among other things. And made it clear that the opposition was based upon NOTHING true.
I refreshed myself today by watching "I Walk the Line". Should have been best picture. But it was about a good Christian Republican so couldn't have that.
The fact that on a practical level most Muslims living in the Middle East consider themselves to belong to a certain nation-state does not mean that their affiliation to tribe or religion has diminished since the collapse of the vestigial remnants of the Caliphate after the First World War.
Pan-Arabism might be an antiquated idea, but pan-Islam is not only alive and well, but it is flourishing, as the Paris intifada, worldwide riots in response to those innocuous Jyllands-Posten cartoons, and generic support for the 9/11 massacres within the ummah demonstrate.
In this respect, Osama Bin-Laden and the Muslim Brotherhood are merely picking up on the legacy bequeathed by Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, who was simply revivifying a concept that had been inherent in Islam since the time of Mohammed.
Worldwide unity, leading to independence from Western colonialist powers, followed shortly thereafter by the colonization in turn of the West.
Thanks .. I'm going to catch it. This is beyond surreal. The 2 parties, though they're too misguided and blinded by their ulterior motives to see it, finally working together ... and hurting US.
"Bush has promised to veto any bill to stop the sale. I just have to wonder why he is so determined to see this through."
Oil interests.
"I thought this would happen. Our debt will rise. Gas will rise. Our military will be kicked out of countries that have previously supported us. "
Debt rose when 9/11 happened. Such attacks are very expenisve, and need to be pre-empted.
"Probably only the first of many Middle East countries offering some support to us to slam the door."
Some "friends."
The oil emirates are in a bind. Their economies are almost entirely dependant on selling oil, and on being protected. Shuting out the U.S. helps neither point.
Enlightened self interest will prevail in the end.
"The fallout may very well cause much more harm to our National Security and interests than even what the most fertile imaginations of the knee-jerker political opportunists are claiming might happen if Dubai gets to run some of the facilities."
Out of touch.
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