Wet dream or not, I cannot bring myself to admire a place where the poor are treated like vermin. The same poor who’ve built the place into what it is today.
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/14416
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/gallery/2008/oct/08/1?picture=338366526
whoa! I definitely did not see that part of the UAE (although someone once told me that in the smallest Emirate state - Ajman, which is the tiniest of the 7 Emirati states) Indians and Pakistanis are put in really atrocious conditions. I’ve not seen it, but when I asked my taxi driver he seemed to concur that there is an underworld of enslavement, forced prositution, and other human rights abuses that would chill one’s soul. I didn’t see it myself (I was in the glitzy parts), but if that glitz is built on shattered dreams and bloodied sweat then it is cursed. I see your point, and share it. Kind of wipes the polish off Dubai, huh.
Just imagine if all the western dollars which went to these muslim loons (sorry Mr. and Mrs. Loon) was spent on oil recovered in the US instead. Then what would NYC look like in domparison with Dubai?