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Originally Posted by Abcdxxxx
Now Kevin, how can you say our security will improve because of this deal, when your argument has been that they won't have any important role in our security ?? Which is it? Because if they can play a positive improvement roll, it makes it possible that they can also play a negative one too.
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No. My hope is that with all of these folks in Congress sooooo concerned all of a sudden, it might....just MIGHT.....result in some legislation that beefs up the Coast Guard, or improves upon the way Homeland handles oversight.
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By the way, aren't you kind of disturbed that 6 ports became 21 ports,
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Would it matter if it were the British, rather than Dubai? Admittedly, I'd like to know why it jumped like that, but those 21 to my understanding are ports that were already under P & O authority.
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I'm sure you've heard, the UAE just confiscated history textbooks from a private American school, because they didn't like the chapters on the mid-east & Israel. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...on=theuae&col= They fund the Edward Sai'd chair at Columbia's middle eastern studies program, which is now filled by a former PLO spokesman. They still fund Hamas.
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The EU today essentially decided to still fund the Palestinian government, which is now run by Hamas. China, which actually has existing port deals with us, is way ahead of the game on the whole censorship of texts thing. The Sai'd thing? Come on....
If you are saying we need to wash our hands immediately of every Middle Eastern country (excluding Israel), then you are making a much bolder argument than the one being made here. How are our friends the Saudis, the Jordanians, or the Egyptians on revisionist history?
If we choose to withdraw from these nations over every thing we find wrong, then we are simply withdrawing completely.
"Dubai Ports Operating Shariah Compliant Ports"
As I said already, they have offered to essentially create a subsidiary, headed by an American only, to oversee the American operations. I highly doubt that these ports will be run by "Shariah" law......I'd like to see them try that in Baltimore, or Boston.
Again, what's your argument? Muslims shouldn't dominate our ports, out-sourcing so many ports is bad, muslims running our ports are going to blow us up, etc. etc. ???
I am honestly a bit taken by the sudden jump in the number. Something tells me that has more to do with our own governments sloppy handling of this on the PR end, and less to do with those nefarious, cabal-like mooslims.......