The Arab-Islamic nations which are the greatest security risks are the moderate ones because they are open to exploitation. In the case of UAE, there is enough ambigious information to send up red flags. That's not a slam on the nations ability to modernize, so much as a recognition of that governments activities.
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you aren't able to paint a picture of the government of the UAE being any more an enemy of the United States than Singapore... or even Israel.
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I'm assuming you have a basic education, and grasp world politics to the point where i shouldn't have to. It's not a double standard. I wouldn't want Israel to run our ports either.
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Has the UAE military ever staged a direct attack on an American ship, trying to make it look like some other country did it, so we'd attack one of their enemies?
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Spare me. If you want to slam Israel, there's plenty of legit points you can make without promoting an outright lie.
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Your arguement is basically that they are not good enough friends to us, so we should not let them have this deal.
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No, that's not my argument. I have a bunch of reservations for a bunch of reasons. None of them involve the phrase "towel heads" which actually offends me.
Have you figured out that it's 21 ports in America, and not just the six yet?