Do Buy!

Perhaps I'm misinterpreting what's going on here, but to me it seems like Dubai World's recent decision to bow out of the deal that Bush was getting hell for was actually rather mature.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/10ports.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

After all the hoopla (which it seemed like the UAE didn't expect; if they had, they probably wouldn't have entered into the arrangement in the first place) and bad noise, the Arab company decided to just quietly step back. This is actually the first mature reaction of anyone involved. "Okay, relax, no problem, we'll just skip the thing," the UAE said to the U.S. congressional reaction, which could probably be characterized as "Fuck! Shit! No way! You can't have the key to our backdoor! You supported the fucking TALIBAN! AAAAAHHHHH!"

Ha. The end result, then, is that the UAE comes off as adult and business-minded, whereas the U.S. looks to the world like a bunch of whiny little racists. How pathetic we have become.

And the fallout of this is yet to be determined, but it may very well be that we'll suffer for this economically.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/business/worldbusiness/10chill.html?hp&ex=1142053200&en=f63240f56ab349b8&ei=5094&partner=homepage

This is not to suggest that shrub was right to defend the deal, or that it was a good idea to begin with. If you ask me, it was idiotic to begin with.