Re: UAE Port Deal
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OK guys, there are 2.5 million people in the UAE. Despite being overwhelmingly Arab, they are actually not all terrorists. It would be both disgusting and terribly damaging to our current image war in the Middle East to disrupt this deal solely because the buyers are Arabs.
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Well, there's a greater proportion of persons with known links to 911 in UAE than there was in Iraq, right? If we can go to war over no link, surely we can kill a port deal with a country with some links.
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Do you honestly consider the country from which a terrorist is from a "link" which should trouble us more than a government which is actively supporting terrorism and threatening the United States? I don't recall us having to expel UAE from a neighboring nation after they invaded followed by 12 years of recalcitrance which included almost daily shooting at American planes, an attempted assassination of a former American President and breaking virtually every part of a ceasefire agreement.
Having said that, I'm still not sure that I like the deal either.
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