The American people intelligently do not share your confidence in 'allies' where a corrupt elite sides with us and the man in the street hates us. How 'allied' would Egypt be if it had a fair election ? Just as the Europeans realize that their Muslims will not be assimilated by secularism, socialized medicine, and the dole, so the American people realize that money hasn't got one damn thing to do with the problems of people sitting on top of the richest cash cow on this planet.
The entire assumption that Muslims are 'just like us' and 'want the same things we do' is collapsing in the face of facts throughout the Western world.
The Emir of Dubai does business with us and thinks he can bribe any politician in Washington. But he is not an ally. Nations are allies. We made this same mistake with Imperial Iran where we had an alliance with the Shah.
Look, Sham. What you keep missing is that we HAVE ALLIES in the Middle East and we NEED them. Iraq and Afghanistan are the newest ones. They are predominantly Muslim, so you tell me, should we crap on that or use that alliance to our benefit? The same holds for the UAE. Let me ask you a question I asked another poster today: Would the WOT (and therefore the U.S.) be better served by A) an alliance with the UAE or B)not having the UAE as an ally. A or B?
Nobody is saying "Muslims are just like us" by the way, except YOU. Stop muddying those waters, Sham.