desertdude desertdude:
Like said before political friendships are a tit for tat things. One just doesnt give all the time without getting anything in return.
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
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But if the UAE was looking for Canada to fold under a similarly styled threat, it had to be upset when another Gulf state, Qatar, quietly signed an aviation agreement with Canada on Nov. 11. The deal will allow Qatar Airways to fly three passenger flights and three cargo flights a week to and from Canada.
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managin ... 0006_10006Re-quoted for emphasis.
Like others have said. The UAE gave us staging space, and overflight rights. We gave young men and women willing to die to protect everyone in the region. That was a mutual security matter.
If the UAE wanted to do business, that was a different matter. Qatar wants to do business so we gave them basically the same deal the UAE wanted, because they were not holding us ransom by holding us hostage with what they think will give them leverage. The UAE really doesn't understand us; that security and business are two different things. The two do not intermingle, like we don't mix government and religion, or politics and dinner. This goes in this box, that goes in that box.
Mutual security was the was for us to develop friendly relations. That could have encompassed a growing business relationship too. Perhaps even tourism. But they had to go and push things, the same way that another regional country would have expected to be treated. But we aren't built that way. It didn't show us the respect we had been showing to the UAE. They wanted us gone, we left. We thanked them for their hospitality, noticed they didn't offer salt on their table, shook their hand and parted ways.
Have you noticed that there is no further retaliation from Canada? To us, the matter is done. If they want to act like civilized people in the future, perhaps that can be arranged. But not this year.
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