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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME
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To: Rande Is who wrote (57306)2/23/2006 10:42:57 AM
From: Jack Russell  Read Replies (2) of 57584
 
Dubai is the best friend we have in the region. They have outwardly supported us in the Iraq war and the war on terror... They have caught and extradited Terrorists... They have let us use bases in there country for our military... They let us set up a CIA station in their country...
It would seem to me if we are trying to build up friendships and trust in the middle East this is the wrong direction to go in.
Where this "issue" will hurt us is not with the uneducated masses rioting at the instigation of Middle East fascists and their allies, it will hurt us with precisely the portion of the Arab/Muslim population that is most sympathetic to our goals in that part of the world.... The educated middle class. This would be the businessmen who manage and work for companies like Dubai World Ports. We are telling those people, in no uncertain terms, that is doesn’t matter what they do, what matters is what they are. For all our posturing about the hypocrisy of Arab/Muslim Moderates failing to stand up to Middle East fascists, the bottom line is that even when these Arab/Muslim Moderates do what we ask – as has the government and the people of the United Arab Emirates – what we reward those efforts with is little more than distrust and contempt. And that, in the end, will most likely end up costing us more lives.
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