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Lets turn it around. Suppose because of this the UAE stops letting us fly U2s and other aircraft out of its country.

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If the UAE were to do that then there is more to it than merely "feeling snubbed" and they would likely have either an ulterior motrive or conflicts of interest.

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If this happens there is a chance one of our U2s will miss collecting valuable intelligence which we could have used to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. Or perhaps becuase we we lost our base in the UAE, we weren't able to get that predator drone up in the air to kill a Yemeniese terrorist cell planing to suitcase nuke Phoenix. Although the risks may be miniscule the consequences utterly disastourous.

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That's a further-fetched and loosely contrived example than the very direct scenario involving smuggling nukes into our ports. I don't think the two scenarios are really comparable.

Are we to base our most vitally important security decisions on whether or not Middle Eastern nations "don't feel snubbed" or whether or not they "really like us"? Not a good criteria at all IMO. And as in another post, simply passing a law forbidding ANY foreign entity from running our ports would help the UAE and Arabs save face in this instance as well as helping to insure our future security.