THis is a joke, right? Management of the ports was outsourced to a company in a country–the UK–with which the US has had a “special relationship” for at least upwards of a century. Now the outsourcing will be to a company controlled by the government of a country that is a known supporter of anti-western terrorism.

Some of us can recognize a difference. It’s somewhat telling that some here are apparently unable to.

These ports have been outsourced for years, and not one peep from Hillary or Schumer. Could you make it any more obvious that this is all about Democrats’ racism, not about any concern with security?

And I see no reason to get hysterical until answers are forthcoming. As I said in my earlier post, I see this as a matter for concern, not for panic.

V, do you know what the takeover will involve, or change?? And how much internal port information will be in the hands of UAE? I don’t.

Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, are backing this sale. But I want to know more.

#17 — DPW taking over management interest of the ports changes nothing w respect to security interests for the US. Staffing will remain the same, security, etc. etc.

Exactly my point. DHS is doing a horrible job at Port Security, which is ridiculous because the technology to better monitor container shipping already exists. If Wal-Mart can know the exact origin, contents, and destination of every container it unloads from China, why can’t the DHS?*

* Well, I mean apart from the fact that DHS is brobdignagian government bureaucracy staffed with people who are more interested in moving paper and planning Diversity Awareness Seminars than defending Homeland Security. If a civilian bureaucracy like DHS had been in charge of the D-Day invasion, we would still have troops waiting in the English Channel while the EPA completed its report on the environmental impact to Normandy Beach sand and the Cultural Sensitivity Group worked out the best way of killing Nazis without offending their cultural sensitivities.

DPW taking over management interest of the ports changes nothing w respect to security interests for the US.

Staffing will remain the same, security, etc. etc.

One has to posit a rather bizarre conspiracy (one which involves the Western management of DPW - typical of Emirates, there is lots of Anglo expat talent) destroying the firm in the process to get a security issue.

(New York Post) “Dubai Ports, after all, is owned by the United Arab Emirates, whose banking system - considered the commercial center of the Arab world - provided most of the cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Indeed, much of the operational planning for the World Trade Center attacks took place inside the UAE.”
Contemptible racist fear-mongering.

The 11 Sep group used Dubai banks. As they used Hamburg banks, London Banks and wait for it… US banks. The assertion w respect to operational planning is a gross exageration. Much planning actually occured in Germany where Atta was, should Germany as a whole be suspect?

Re banks. They had accounts. This hand waving guilt-by-association is hardly something that brings credit upon those repeating it.

The co-blogger crows about how open to different views he and the other one are. What horseshit

Actually, they’re open to different views of the intellectually honest, not the vaginal expulsions that you post.

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I don’t doubt that, but there is something to be said about that. I imagine some sort of mutiny if you tried to instill anything anywhere near airport type security on the cruise ships.

I’m still wondering why Algore never fulfilled his promise of improving airport/airline security. Other than the $500,000+ donations the DNC got from the airlines and their lobbyists.

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