The First National Bank of Dubai

(Not on what those in favor thereof are saying, by which they are summarily dismissing the opposition as underpinned by "racism" and "xenophobia". As is almost always true when such charges are levied, those so doing, in their inability to address the facts on hand, instead thereby attempt to summarily dispatch those making cases with which they can not deal.)

Now we have today's Washington Times regaling us with further details and new instances of the U.A.E.'s checkered Islamist past, and present. effort to end ALL foreign ownership of all ports, an absolutely asinine deign to political correctness by which we avoid making the inordinately reasonable distinction between Liverpool and Abu Dhabi.

May we now all at least tacitly acknowledge that this might be about more than merely the melanin count of the new landlords?

There is another side to this ridiculousness coin, and it is the

Professor of Ebonics; Snoop Dogg, Ph.D.

Until now, this multicultural moronity has largely been limited to the domestic side of the equation (affirmative action, widespread Spanish alternatives in all things, the positing of Ebonics as a Second [First?] Language, etc.), where, while it has been egregiously socially damaging, it appeared not to have been overtly dangerous. No longer.

We were perfectly fine with the privately owned British Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company holding this harbor half dozen prior to their attempts to sell to the Emirates, were we not? And so we should be still.

But to eschew the appearance of our delineating between centuries-long allies and Islamofascist aiders and abettors, we are now endeavoring to end all foreign port oversight. This is pathetic on stilts.

And, of course, egregiously perilous. In an effort to lessen the avouched slight to an at best tenuous federate, we fully affront a long time true compatriot in all things, whilst still failing to disinjure the fragile feelings of the former. We thereby risk the loyal assistance of genuine allies in the vain and vainglorious attempt to appease our newly discovered and highly questionable anti-terror coadjutants.

We need not, nor should we, sacrifice the Britains of the world to the likes of the U.A.E. on the Altar of Pander.

The Ultimate Objective, Barring Thug Fraternization

And in the ultimately fruitless effort to diffuse the accusation of racism, we are more fully forming the imputation of xenophobia.

Strictly from a business perspective, as the ideology and Party of free trade limited only by concerns for self-preservation, this is not the image we should be promulgating.

From a national security perspective, we must be putting repletedly forward the factual front that we indeed truly understand who are real friends are and treat them accordingly, which is to say differently from those on whom, at the very least, the jury is still out.

Britain, with us from the start (an inception that, as we have said, predates September 11th, 2001), should be allowed to (continue to) be fully engaged in all aspects of our existence, including those that brush up on areas of national security. Likewise Australia, should they choose to get in the ports game or some similar assurance affiliated field.

The United Arab Emirates simply, realistically, can not be afforded the same shrift.

Distinctions With a Difference

That we have arrived at a point where it is considered anti-Arab or obscenely protectionist to make this distinction only further exhibits the intellectual dimming that has resulted from our cumulative multicultural brain saturation, and that the damage done thereby was more extensive than merely domestically societal.

The organ from which ideas spring is the most vital, and any injure inflicted thereon begets woeful consequences any and everywhere.

As the saying goes, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. But it is much a more arrant practice to actively diminish its use in the effort to dull the sharp pain of hard fact, or to placate those threatening to immolate the culture you wish to multi-texturize.