"I say we Giulani them and say keep your money..."
Might work if we weren't so in debt up to our eyeballs that it take foreign countries to keep us afloat. Sticking the UAE in eye over this is going to backfire. Agree with previous posts that suggest this will prompt the UAE to start playing both sides of the game again like they were doing before 9/11. They see that Iran is going to get its nuclear weapons and see that they are not treated as true partners in their dealings with us. "Arabs need not apply" is the sign they see us hanging at our "front door". Big time FUBAR.
Arabs need not apply" is the sign they see us hanging at our "front door".
I don't think that is it in totality. But yes, lets be honest, it is a sort of "profiling" due to the ethnicity of the terrorists of 9/11. To many americans, its a natural reflection (I'm one of them) whether its right or wrong. If the UAE was buying something else, I don't think it would raise that much of a ruckus. But a point of entry into the U.S., well, we can't even control our borders as it is. Remember when we intercepted the terrorists coming down through Washington State after 9/11?