Port Security
One of the commenters on TPMCafe sums up my general view of the possibility of Dubai Ports World taking over the running of a number of US ports. brooksfoe writes:A major multinational shipping conglomerate owned by the Dubai royal family is not "the Arab world". It's a part of the elite US-Arab oil/transport/ financial nexus which also includes the bin Ladens and the Bushes. The furor over the DPW takeover sends a message not to the Arab world, but to the members of that elite business clique, be they WASP or sheikh: you can't continue to play fecklessly at security issues, whip up anti-Arab prejudice (on this side of the pond) and anti-American/ Zionist fury (on that side of the pond), and still cut your little business deals with each other as if everything was just hunky-dory. Bush has never understood before that xenophobic militarism has consequences, because it's never hit him in his class interests. Now, maybe, he's finally starting to get the picture.I don't know whether the security risk is higher with a UAE company running the ports than with a British company (although given what we do know about al-Qaeda's ability to infiltrate Middle-Eastern organizations I suspect it is) but this action by the preznit does fly in the face of his "post 9/11" world view and begs the question of why the man who has yet to veto anything in over 5 years would pick THIS issue to feel that strongly about. Might want to look a little more closely at TreasSec John Snow, whose agency approved the deal (and who one suspects made a tidy sum of money prior to this role in a deal with the same UAE company).
3 Comments:
I just want to know why Ann Coulter was given control of U.S. port security in Baltimore, Miami, New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and New Jersey!
Interesting question: people talk about presidents becoming lame ducks, but why does no one ever talk about them jumping the shark?
Shimmy - it's an interesting question but you get demerits for mentioned (that woman)'s name on my blog. No tuna for you!
Lex - okay, I sit corrected. And, yeah, I'd love to see some good Scanners-esque Repuglican head explosions!
PC - Lex told me some months ago that shark jumping has jumped the shark.
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