This is shocking... how? The arab empire was built on the slave trade. The whole...

at-fates-hands · on Sept 25, 2013

The only shocking thing is how we in the US put up with this behavior from governments we send billions in aid to every year. You'd think we'd have the balls to suspend some their aid and have them put an end to this type of abuse.

ihsw · on Sept 25, 2013

How is that the US' responsibility? It has nothing to do with balls at all, either.

If you think the US has any interest in exerting its economic or military power in the interest of morals and ethics then I've got a bridge to sell you.

agilebyte · on Sept 25, 2013

The aid is to get their govt support against war on terror and access to resources no?

Which really shows that we have our priorities set straight too. They are not our people slaving away there, so we turn a blind eye.

umeshunni · on Sept 25, 2013

The US sends billions in aid to Qatar and Dubai? I think what you mean is that these countries buy billions of $ of US weapons every year.

jlgreco · on Sept 25, 2013

Something that is shocking is not necessarily surprising. "Shocking" in this case is more about the visceral reaction of disgust it causes.

gdilla · on Sept 25, 2013

Uh, it's still wrong. That's the point.

bsullivan01 · on Sept 25, 2013

The whole of Dubai exists solely due to external workers, from engineers to the bricklayers.

External workers are fine since workers are different from slaves or "slaves". If they paid me $150K a year, I'd go there and lay bricks myself and for $1000 a month they'd get probably a billion applications. What they did is they screwed the poor Indians, Bangladeshis, Filipinos etc, once they got there.