"So why would these 'terrorists' allow our country to refuel our WAR VESSELS at their port and host an airbase that was used in the attacks on Iraq?"
Because the Royals gain our protection from their own home grown Islamic facists that they themselves perpetuate.
Again, the UAE isn't the same as Saudi Arabia. Two different countries, okay?
Hmm. You both seem to be making this same baseless argument. I can't tell whether you are both paroting the Wiener Nation or not, because he's the only talking head I know uninformed enough to make this argument. Allow me to school you:
1) The UAE does not depend on us for security. We depend on it for the security of our mildly armed Naval vessels and unarmed combat personel visiting their nation.
2) Saudi Arabia faces much greater internal threats than the UAE that their royals have fostered. Yet they depend so little on the US for security that they have thrown the US military off of it's territory (the same military the UAE royals welcomed.)
3) The UAE royals would not be a target of any jihadist at all had they not reached out and allied with us and stayed loyal to us.
This is no way to treat a friend. You knee-jerk anti-arabists are just as bad as the knee-jerk anti-semites like Buchanan and Novak. It DOES NOT MATTER what they have done for us or what they are doing for us, all that matters to you guys is that they are 'sand niggers' and your brain shuts off.