"RCE" wrote in message
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB is just desperately looking for rationalizations to explain away
this latest screw-up of you know who.

No, I don't buy that. Most likely, if GB had stepped in during the
acquisition phase and announced that no Arab entity was going to be
allowed to run the subject port operations, the media and you-know-whos
would be all over him for further alienating our few remaining Arab
allies. He can't win.

I don't know what I think of this whole situation but NOYB's post of the
Steve Schippert article was about the cleanest summary that makes sense of
all the wild stories.

RCE


Of course, he could've quietly held the deal hostage until OBL was handed
over. This would've achieved two good things at once. First, it would've
cranked his approval ratings so high, he could've announced OBL's capture
while simultaneously butt ****ing a toddler on TV, and it wouldn't have
mattered. Second, he could've made the UAE look really good when he
explained that "they assisted".

Sadly, two is twice as many things as the idiot can probably handle at once.