"Let us bomb you or we will cancel our contracts for Boeing airplanes."
Sounds pretty logical from their point of view. Let's be happy and just go along with Arab Muslim logic to have access to our security, to our ports, to our people.
Look, here's the deal: they get American $$$ and they are forced to recycle them. They can put them in the bank where they may suffer currency risk, or they can buy things with them, like Boeing jets. They knew the risk on the P&O deal going in. It's not like they are just waking up to the risk they were taking -- the risk of stoking the anger of Americans at Arabs for the 3,000 dead on 9/11.
They could require Euro's which is just another way to give profit margins to a middle man. Or, they could p*** off the American military and force them to move their operations to Hungary, Iraq (remote bases), or other locations that want PROTECTION. If these weak kingdoms don't want our protection, tough s**-shitsky.
In short: they can go pound sand.
BTTT