Infinite MonkeysWhat's all the fuss? Total security is impossible. We can no more secure our ports from a container with a nuclear weapon than we can prevent a determined terrorist from taking a school bus, attacking an airline ticket counter, bombing a shopping mall, or spreading a biological weapon. We cannot do these things, unless we wish to be a true police state.
But we can use our heads and not allow a company owned by a state that happens to be the nexus of the Arabic banking and trade world to assume management of six strategic assets on our soil. It is not fair, perhaps, to the good people of Dubai or the rest of the United Arab Emirates. I, for one, do not care. I place the burden of proof on the foreigner to prove a negative -- an impossible standard. But I demand the impossible because we already face the impossible task of security. In short, I do not wish to compound an impossible security problem with yet another unknown factor. The United Arab Emirates must not be allowed operational control of American ports. Is that clear?
Peter King, R-NY, and Chuck Schumer, D-NY, ask: Where's the common sense?
Posted by H.L. Monkey at February 22, 2006 09:52 PMAfter 9/11, President Bush asked every country to decide if they were with us or against us. The UAE decided they were with us. Stopping this deal is a very, very bad idea.
Posted by: Monkey David at February 23, 2006 03:54 PM