Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go be giddy.

I know that I really shouldn’t get a kick out of bad news, but given how much I hate Sony, I can’t help but getting a kick out of reports that the console will be delayed and cost much more than expected. Of course, I remember hearing similar things about the Xbox 360, but none of those reports came from Merrill Lynch.

What, exactly, is the problem here? The UAE isn’t really one of those countries that I consider a staunch ally, but I was under the impression that our relationship with them was a fairly warm one. At the very least, it’s as warm as our relationship with China (China, as I understand it, has owned several of our ports since Bill Clinton was in office). With that in mind, suddenly protesting the UAE’s purchase of the company that owns several ports (a company that really manages things on a much higher level and likely wasn’t really too involved with security or day-to-day operations in the first place, as I understand it) seems kind of hypocritical from many people. Given that the UAE hasn’t been a particular target in the War on Terror, why is it so much worse for the UAE to run some ports than it is for China to do so?

There are only two reasons that I can see. Either a.) the protest stems from the fact that the UAE is a largely Arab country or b.) the protest stems from the fact that the UAE is a largely Muslim country, neither of which seems like a good enough reason to block this deal, especially not when we have to deal with a lot of dishonest protesters trying to claim that we’re waging war on Arabs or Muslims, instead of our real targets, terrorists. (Incidentally, these are the same people who will see the police arresting a black murderer and quickly claim we’re targeting blacks instead of, you know, murderers.