Right Wing Nut House

It’s a good thing the ports deal issue will soon be fading into the background. I can’t tell you how uncomfortable I am when I have to show my anti-Arab bigotry in public. I feel much more at ease hiding behind code words and other devices that only my morally superior betters can divine as being truly “racist” in nature. Better that most people never suspect that, at heart, I’m just a wild eyed, goober chewing, slack-jawed mouth breather who fears the ayrab and all the rest of them fereners. The only good ferener is a dead ferener, that’s what I say. Especially when they dress up in funny clothes and don’t worship Jesus.

That said, I’m glad we can now get back to business as usual with the Saudis, the Pakistanis, and all those folks from the city-state sized feudal kingdoms that make up the Emirates, itself a form of government that’s an anachronistic throwback to a time when Islam was the light of the world and western Europeans were killing each other over who should be living in which drafty old castle.

Yes, it will be nice to get back to business as usual with people who are playing both ends against the middle in the terror game, hoping that modernity on the one hand and radical Islam on the other doesn’t intrude on their private preserves of debauchery and corruption. To guarantee that, they have the United States government to protect and shield them from both substantive change in their societies as well as the ravages of Islamic fundamentalism.

It must be nice for them to be able to be able to talk out of both sides of their mouths at the same time about terrorism. On the one hand, the Saudis, Pakistanis, and many of the smaller Gulf states are actually quite helpful in our fight against terrorism - up to a point. I haven’t seen the Saudi royal family disciplining any of its members lately for their ties to terror. Nor have I seen any purges of the Pakistani intelligence services, some members of which helped prop up the Taliban in Afghanistan and may to this day be supporting al Qaeda. The same goes for the Saudis except we are much too polite to be asking questions about that. We need the oil spigots kept wide open and insulting King Abdullah by pointing to probable disloyalty in his secret police may upset the monarch’s delicate sensibilities.

And our bestest friends in the UAE? Funny how Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum can welcome our carrier battle groups with open arms on the one hand and then send billions of dollars to fund radical Madrasses around the world that preach the only good American is a dead American. With friends like the Sheik…

Yes, I’m happy that the ports deal imbroglio is over. Now we can get back to laughing at Democrats who were so desperate to demonstrate their bona fides on national security, they didn’t realize they now leave themselves wide open to charges of hypocrisy regarding their curious resistance to protecting our southern borders.

But that’s another debate…