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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (17864)2/22/2006 3:16:30 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
UAE & THE USA

Jonah Goldberg
The Corner

From a reader:

<<< Jonah,

I found Rummy’s presser yesterday interesting. Apparently our Aircraft Carriers regularly make port call in the UAE and are serviced supplied etc. Apparently we have excellent military to military cooperation with the UAE including selling them US made aircraft etc.

Gen Pace Joint Chiefs said that the UAE lets us use their airspace, bases, helps maintain the bases. Apparently they have done that even during war time when we really need it with no hassles.

It may be that the Administration insiders have long come to terms with the conflict that comes from all the above positive info (there is much more) with the fact they the UAE do not recognize Israel.

It seems that the W team has comprehensively bungled the internal and external sales effort on this. The underlings may have not realized how sensitive the issue would be and did not plan and execute a full sales and communication plans that alerted the top players in all the depts.

Given that actual security is still the responsibility of the US Gov. Agencies, Coast Guard, Customs etc. and that we berth our Carriers in the UAE, fight wars in the Mid east with UAE help, I think it’s hard to argue that this port deal is unacceptable.

My mind is still open and ready to absorb more facts. Given what I know so far I think this is a sales and PR disaster but the merits of the matter don’t seem nutty. >>>

corner.nationalreview.com
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