Reply #16: It's not the UK they're worried about, it's the 6 ports in the USA

[muriel_volestrangler]

The most extreme reaction yet: "Countries like the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia (oh especially this piece of CRAP country, scumbags), Yemen, Pakistan, etc., are where the REAL heros of the USA SHOULD BE, and NOT Iraq. Sorry if I sound militant here, but why didn't we make tolietbowl countries like them into parking lots on Sept. 12th, 2001?" http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x405756

And that's the OP - which has got 15 recommendations for the 'greatest' list, in under 3 hours. :eyes:

To me, this isn't a security problem. But 95% of the DUers in the threads have leapt on this as 'Bush putting terrorists in charge'. I see it, as others here have, as a sad reflection on the decline of British industry - even with oil and gas, we have a current account deficit, and those extra pounds going abroad are coming back to buy up the companies. Working for a subsidiary of a foreign company does mean that you're more likely to be targeted for cuts if profits go down (though most of Dubai Ports is outside the partent country, so at least teh UK jobs won't be such an obvious target).

The horrible thing is the tone of the comments sometimes stray from 'nationalist' to 'racist', eg the quote above.