With persistence and patience, the UAE might just be one more country in the Arab world to go democratic. Like the commercial says: "The cost of some stupid politician's reelection campaign, $2 million. The cost of some US port operations, $5.6 billion. The cost of democracy, priceless!"
Excellent. Lat's wait until they do before letting them operate our ports. We have a lot of other things to offer in the mean time that are not as critical to our national security interests.
After watching this I wouldn't count on it. ;^)