Reply #3: Just like Quatar. And you know, after 9/11 it was not a bad idea

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to change military bases to outside of Saudi Arabia - since Koran says explicitely no. Koran also says explicitly that Israel should be about where it is. There have to be bases there. Just not so sure about how this deal is going to help democracy in the middle east. As if neocons are going to somehow be for the nationalization of the UAE port corporation in the future by the people of the UAE. I don't see how this improves the lives of the UAE people. And helps integrate those lost middle easterners who get lured inot Jihad due to poverty and the radical islamist leaders who give sustenance to the poor - at a price of activating them into intolerant people bent on getting rid of all things modern. Perhaps they think that by luring petro-dollars to investment of things like "ports" where no american billionaires want to be - they are playing sort of a "okay - you buy our junk business since ports are going to crash in 20 years when the cost of fuel becomes excessive". So perhaps that is the tactic.

I don't understand why the USA would not be taking back its ports seeing as how the biggest future threat is a dirty bomb.



Aside from the security issue - I don't understand why more petro-dollar investment in the USA is a good idea.