What always amused me about Dubai was how you have a long-running Ozzie/Brit/Kiwi expat community who think they own the joint because it used to be claimed by the Brits (along with everything else between Burma and the Med).
To hear any of these same UAE-living expats lambasting U.S. foreign policy or shedding crocodile tears over this unfortunate fisherman while they're busy living and working (and thereby supporting) a city that was built on the dead bodies of and maintained-by the right-less, quasi-slave, labor force of Indians, Bangladeshis, and Pakistanis that make their lives there possible is the height of hypocricy.
I guess in between bragging to their friends back home about how little they have to pay Philipino housekeepers and the stopovers in Thailand where the girls are cheap, this is where they become blog-educated "experts" on the evils of America and why it shouldn't be out in the world.
Meanwhile of course, we're stealing their women back home because we do what they aren't used to, like holding a door open for them and not making them buy their own dinner.