In the long run, this will prove to be one of the most important stories of this era. How is it that everyone who was so concerned about Dubai buying our ports can sit blithely by as the Gulf States buy $25 billion in strategic assets including the London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the Carlyle Group? This may also prove to be Bush/Cheney's greatest failure. The plummeting dollar, while beneficial for Exxon, is making certain powerful corporations easy pickings for oil producing states...