Friends
The moderate break is over, the ranter is back in residence.
Dan Bartlett, White House Counselor (as credited on Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room on Feb 21, 2006), said that the reason why the countries in the Middle East won’t recognize Israel is because Israel has not come to an agreement with the Palestinians.
Dan, Dan, Dan. If the US refuses to negotiate with terrorists, why should we expect the Israelis to? Fatah and Hamas started as terrorist organizations and are still committing acts of terrorism, funding terrorists, and hosting terrorist training camps.
So, why are we giving anything to any country that is refusing to recognize Israel for ANY reason?
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports radical Islam, supports the radical extremists who are blowing up Americans and others in Muslim countries around the world, and refuses to recognize one of our allies, Israel. The leadership that runs the country also owns and operates Dubai Ports World (DPW). In effect, it would be the UAE who would be running six US ports, including having significant say in how the ports are run, not a company.
The British company that has been running these ports prior to their purchase by DPW, did not support Muslim fanatics going around killing people and recruiting other fanatics to kill Westerners, nor did the company refuse to recognize the State of Israel.
Anyone who compares the two is doing so by willfully ignoring the facts. Anyone who is accusing opponents of this contract of racism is someone is willfully ignoring the facts, or they’re on somebody’s payroll and stand to make a great deal if this deal goes through. Or they are an idiot.
Unless the Bush Administration’s support of DPW is a sneaky attempt to get Congress to okay Halliburton getting the contract without bidding on it (or padding their bid as they are wont to do), there is NO good reason to give any country—including UAE--six of our ports or anything else.
There is no argument to be made that they are our friends, and it is the “right” thing to do. So long as they support terrorism and terrorists, and so long as they refuse to recognize Israel, they do not deserve to be called “friends”.
Otherwise, let’s just go all the way at make UBL the head of Homeland Security, and Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
And, on a side note, am I the only one creeped out by the UAE male vs. female stats as documented in the CIA Factbook?
Dan Bartlett, White House Counselor (as credited on Wolf Blitzer’s The Situation Room on Feb 21, 2006), said that the reason why the countries in the Middle East won’t recognize Israel is because Israel has not come to an agreement with the Palestinians.
Dan, Dan, Dan. If the US refuses to negotiate with terrorists, why should we expect the Israelis to? Fatah and Hamas started as terrorist organizations and are still committing acts of terrorism, funding terrorists, and hosting terrorist training camps.
So, why are we giving anything to any country that is refusing to recognize Israel for ANY reason?
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports radical Islam, supports the radical extremists who are blowing up Americans and others in Muslim countries around the world, and refuses to recognize one of our allies, Israel. The leadership that runs the country also owns and operates Dubai Ports World (DPW). In effect, it would be the UAE who would be running six US ports, including having significant say in how the ports are run, not a company.
The British company that has been running these ports prior to their purchase by DPW, did not support Muslim fanatics going around killing people and recruiting other fanatics to kill Westerners, nor did the company refuse to recognize the State of Israel.
Anyone who compares the two is doing so by willfully ignoring the facts. Anyone who is accusing opponents of this contract of racism is someone is willfully ignoring the facts, or they’re on somebody’s payroll and stand to make a great deal if this deal goes through. Or they are an idiot.
Unless the Bush Administration’s support of DPW is a sneaky attempt to get Congress to okay Halliburton getting the contract without bidding on it (or padding their bid as they are wont to do), there is NO good reason to give any country—including UAE--six of our ports or anything else.
There is no argument to be made that they are our friends, and it is the “right” thing to do. So long as they support terrorism and terrorists, and so long as they refuse to recognize Israel, they do not deserve to be called “friends”.
Otherwise, let’s just go all the way at make UBL the head of Homeland Security, and Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Absurd? You betcha. So is giving the UAE six of our ports.
And, on a side note, am I the only one creeped out by the UAE male vs. female stats as documented in the CIA Factbook?
posted by Melissa at 3:17 PM
4 Comments:
What is there to be creeped out by?
Yeah, this is a bad idea in general. Since I like the weird and obscure, I often listen to coast-to-coast am (George Noory / Art Bell), and they actually did some serious shows on this topic bringing in people like a captain from the merchant marines to give his take. Everyone they talked to that this would affect was livid.
Even the Republicans are going nuts. This is just insane. I'm a huge capitalist and everything, but if they can't get an American (or at least non-terrorist supporting country's) company to do this, then maybe the (gulp) gov't should just run it themselves. I mean, this is a gateway to the country. It's not like running a grocery store.
My opinion is that the Middle-Eastern countries that don't recognize Israel will never recognize Israel. It's burned in culturally that Israel "stole" their land, and they reaffirm that every day with propoganda, etc. The only "deal" they will accept is every Israeli moves out. That's not a "deal", that's destruction of a nation.
Sometimes I look around and wonder who America's real allies are, and I can often only come up with Israel and Britain. Sure we have friends elsewhere, but it seems like when the tough times hit, those are the two that generally stand with us and are willing to spill blood with us.
The Arab countries are only interested in us as long as the greenbacks keep flowing there. Maybe it's better this way. At least we know where we stand.
You bring up an interesting point, though, about Haliburton. I think Bush made that idiotic nomination of Meiers (sp?) to get someone else through. I'm as conservative as they get, but I was scratching my head on that one. Looked like sheer nepotism. She wasn't qualified at all. All the Justices on SCOTUS now, like them or not, left or right, are actually qualified to be there.
So maybe you're right. Maybe this is just a tactic.
On the other hand....lol
Maybe Haliburton should run the ports. Sure, we'll be overcharged and ripped off, but Haliburton won't help sneak in a nuclear device. I'd rather be robbed than murdered any day of the week.
Related to holes in security, the tunnels from Mexico they've been finding around San Diego are pretty scary. It's one thing for people to smuggle dope and people looking for work in (though I'm not to crazy about that), but those tunnels could be used for more nefarious things. We really need to do something about them.
And the northern border isn't all that secure either when it comes to no-goods getting across. People concentrate on the southern border because of the Mexican workers, but those are just people who want to work just like Canadians who want to come here for vacation or whatever. It's the ones who will mingle in from both borders that we need to worry about.
Yeah, this whole country is nuts, but in some ways it always has been...
The CIA factbook is kind of revealing, but what's more revealing is the age groupings. 0-14 is pretty even. So maybe they stopped killing women in the last 14 years, or maybe they started including them in a census, I dunno.
Another possibility is that women get less access to health care and things because they are "beneath" men, and when they start hitting ages where nastier things happen to the body they just aren't taken care of.
Whatever it is, it's not just creepy, it's wrong. There is no way those numbers should be that skewed. Numbers sometimes get more skewed after a large war, but that's in favor of females because the males die in combat. Usually, nature evens it out though, and you see an increase in male births for a period, but it is subtle - not like what we're seeing here.
Anyhow, once again a provocative entry in your blog. I'm glad the ranter is back. ;-)
-Lou
>>What is there to be creeped out by?
Did you even look at the numbers? Why are the fewer and fewer females in the population? I don't so much care if the government of the UAE or any other Arabic or otherwise predominantly Islamic country isn't modeled after the US or UK, but I do have a problem with us considering as 'friends' countries and religions that continue to treat females as poorly cared for chattel.
Read! The information is out there, in newspapers, on the web, anywhere you open your eyes to.
www.memri.org
www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch
www.faithfreedom.org
>>Sometimes I look around and wonder who America's real allies are, and I can often only come up with Israel and Britain.
Yep. And, maybe Canada, because we employ so many of their actors. ;) And don't you just love Mexico? As long as we give them lots of aid and and don't make noises about taxing their citizens, illegally here in the US, on the money they send to Mexico (see US Plans to Tax Migrants' Money Angers Mexico). Hey! I get it! Taxes, which would help pay for the health, social and educational services they and their US family members receive while they live here, on the $20 billion (sent to Mexico last year) would eat into Mexico's bottom line. Why should they fix anything there when they can rely on us to keep pouring money in, over and under the table?
>>Sure we have friends elsewhere, but it seems like when the tough times hit, those are the two that generally stand with us and are willing to spill blood with us.
Yep.
>>It's burned in culturally that Israel "stole" their land, and they reaffirm that every day with propoganda, etc.
The attraction of the midrassahs becomes apparent, as they replace actual fact-based educational institutions. What better way to grow each new crop of ignoranamouses, fanatics, and terrorists?
Do you remember the commercial, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs?" Well, just substitute Christian or Islamic fundamentalism for "drugs". Why think for yourself when you can let he with the loudest voice and (and bigger IEDs) think for you?
>>You bring up an interesting point, though, about Haliburton. I think Bush made that idiotic nomination of Meiers (sp?) to get someone else through. I'm as conservative as they get, but I was scratching my head on that one. Looked like sheer nepotism. She wasn't qualified at all. All the Justices on SCOTUS now, like them or not, left or right, are actually qualified to be there.
Agreed, but I don't think Bush is smart enough to have plotted that strategy. I wouldn't put it past those around him, though.
>>but those tunnels could be used for more nefarious things. We really need to do something about them.
Well, sure! But since we're sending so much needed here money elsewhere, there's no way to protect our physical borders, let alone our sea and air ports properly. Let alone little unimportant things like levees, schools, health care and other things for our own citizens.
>>Yeah, this whole country is nuts, but in some ways it always has been...
Hellyeah! But if it were perfect, what in the world would we have to bitch about? ;)
>>[UAE/Dubai] Another possibility is that women get less access to health care and things because they are "beneath" men, and when they start hitting ages where nastier things happen to the body they just aren't taken care of.
Exactly. And, when women are forced to dress in robes and maintain a submissive, part-of-the-unseen-background, no one really misses them when they disappear.
>>Anyhow, once again a provocative entry in your blog. I'm glad the ranter is back. ;-)
LOL!!! Boy, and people say I need to get a life! ;)
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