Wrong. Maybe you didn't read the straddle that Charles has so nicely done in the article.
More kneejerk huffing and puffing. No "straddle" whatsoever, plainly; he states, in language transparent enough for any intellectually honest individual to readily grasp -- well: let's amend that to "almost any," in this particular instance -- that the port deal, in his estimation, should go through.
NOT "I don't know."
NOT "maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't."
"1) Allow the contract to go through; (2) give it heightened scrutiny by assigning a team of U.S. government agents to work inside the company at least for the first few years to make sure security is tight and information closely held; (3) have the team report every six months to both the executive and a select congressional committee."
Only someone well and truly in the grip of intellectual hysteria could possibly attempt to alchemize the above paragraph as a "straddle."
Make a cold compress. Go lie down, or something.