Our Friends and the Port Deal

The RCP Blog: "UAE"

There are many who have been congratulating themselves on killing the ports deal. I will predict that this will end up costing the us in dollars. The UAE will be rewarded with military contracts. And what was the issue? Arabs are unreliable, and possibly disloyal? That describes all Democrats, most Republicans, and certainly the unions who are running the ports.

I am reading Saddam's Secrets by Georges Sada, and I am impressed with the kindred spirit I find in this man. I am not personally as brave has he was in the face of the terror of Saddam, but I aspire to be. There are people of all types who will fight for the American Ideal, and maybe the majority is not American