Reply #48: You have to define "profitable", "interests", and "objective"...

[Mithras61]

for this to be a complete answer. You also have to remember that Dubai Ports World isn't just ANY old company, but a wholly owned creature of the UAE government.

What do they consider profitable? Apparently, laundering money and funding terrorists qualifies.

What are their interests? Apparently, driving Israel intot he sea qualifies.

As to their objectives, we don't really know what those are anymore than we know what the al Saud's objectives are. Remember that while the al Saud's proclaim that we are their friends, they are founding and funding Wahhabbi Islam schools - the most radical of all forms of Islam and the source of the vast majority of terrorists. We know that ONE of their objectives is staying in power, but there are many more than that.

The problem isn't so much that they are foreign owned as it is that they are an entity of a foreign government and any time US/UAE interests fail to coincide, whose interests do you suppose Dubai Ports World will back? At what point can we really expect to be thrown under the bus?