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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Huh? Those ports are ours to sell or not. Saying "no" does not equate to being unfriendly. A democraticly elected body took action and spoke for the people, forcing a withdrawal.
We have set the democratic example. If we lost friends, I question the principles upon which those friendships were formed considering the lack of democracy in the region.
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Well, imagine how we would react if the majority of UAE voters took a stand that we could not be trusted to do business there. This may be a "democratic" example, but that is in fact the whole problem. It shows that as a democratic majority we're still a nation of insular isolationist bigots.
Now that we've /spat on UAE, everything's solved, right? We can just go right back to living and forget about the fact that OUR PORTS ARE STILL INSECURE AS HELL.
We won't fix the problem -- but boy we sure showed those DP World invaders, didn't we?
[ 03-13-2006, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]