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Originally Posted by tw
I believe you are confusing Saudi concepts with Arab.
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Nah, Tonchi was just being pragmatic. From
a self congratulatory site on the Dubai royal family
Dubai, which was part of what was known as the Coast of Oman from the early part of the 18th century, was recorded as a settlement from the Middle Ages and in early Arabic history. During this period, the village was ruled by the ancestors of the present-day Al Maktoum family, a faction of the Bani Yas federation which also ruled Abu Dhabi. Since 1833 the reigning Al Maktoum family has ruled Dubai.
In later years, Sheikh Rashid actively promoted his sons, all modernizers like their father, to prominent positions in the government of Dubai and, after 1971, the federal UAE government. Sheikh Maktoum was appointed Chairman of the key Land's Department; Sheikh Hamdan, Head of Dubai Municipality; and Sheikh Mohammed, having completed his military training in Britain, Head of the Police and Public Security Department.
It is under the wise and progressive leadership of the Al Maktoum family that Dubai has prospered and is now the business and tourism hub for a region that stretches from Egypt to the Indian sub-continent and from South Africa to the CIS countries.
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Originally Posted by tw
Meanwhile I am appalled that some here fell for this obvious Rush Limbaugh type propaganda: Using that same reasoning, then America is also a terrorist nation. It’s called containers. They also pass through the US with nothing more than paperwork to inspect.
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Well, I never dreamed that I might be one day called a Rush Limbaugh syncophant. The quote I gave above was from a letter written by several members of Congress (including Dodd, Shays, Foley, Schumer, etc.) using the Congressional Research Service as their source. Whatever.
As a matter of fact, I DO consider the US a terrorist nation. The families of 100,000 Iraqui civilian "collateral casualities" will back me up in this view.
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If the ports are at risk, then we must stop international trading. The threat is no for one reason the employees moving containers. The threat are the many companies how hand off and exchange containers in the port of origin and during shipping through many other ports. Who runs a company that only moves the containers one more time - and not worry about all the other companies that do same - is naivety. And that is what this port controversy is about – too many voices that did not first learn the facts.
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Huh??
I can generally wade through your verbiage, tw, but you've lost me here. So lots of foreign companies might be shipping God knows what to the US. Therefore, we should not be concerned about the port the stuff is shipped through? Like I'm a member of the Taliban and I ship something through London versus Dubai, no biggie?