re: #190 Gus 802

Modern primitives. Dubai was built on petro-dollars and it is just another Arab state ruled by a dark-ages government. While the businessmen take these monies they turn around and revere their hallowed clerics who criticize the Western culture which is the backbone of their riches.

An oversimplification. I don’t suggest that they be trusted, say any more than the Russians or Chinese, but they are not dark-ages there and they are not Iran, nor Saudi, nor Hamas. Underestimating peoples is not a good idea.