The US is currently engaged in a Sisyphean "War on Terror". The other participants in this confict tend to be mid-Eastern muslims.

These would be the same whackos that have been burning buildings and killing people over a cartoon. This behaviour was evidently instigated by governments or religious leaders for their own ends. The same instigation could be used to close or destroy our ports if these governments/leaders got significant control over said ports.

Denying control of the ports to the UAE is not a matter of racism but intelligent self interest. It has nothing to do with Arab thought processes but recent behaviour. Personally, I think the ports are too critical a resource to outsource to anybody.

This last bit:

So whats the deal here, except maybe irrational hate and fear, mainly due, to the lack of idealogy, not the existance of one.

amuses me. What makes you think that people can't think critically without an idealogy? If everybody was muslim, there wouldn't be any need to kill them? It hasn't worked that way in the past, and doesn't appear to be working now.