I am completely serious, although I didn't say what you suggest I meant.
This deal was a business deal between stockholders of a foreign company, and another foreign company. We didn't ask P&O to put itself up for sale. We didn't ask DP World to bid for it. We didn't ask other companies to bid, or to not bid.
We had nothing to do with the sale.
When a deal was reached, U.S. law required the government to examine the sale to ensure there were no security issues. I am certain this was a serious and involved process as you suggest. But that is the ANALYSIS of a deal already made, and does not mean we had anything to DO with the deal.
If you take the SAT, I can grade your paper. I give you the grade, but I have nothing to do with your score.
I was merely trying to correct one of the many misconceptions -- that Bush made a DEAL with the UAE to sell them our ports.
Bush and the machinery deemed that this was a net-positive deal or they wouldn't have ok'd it. Were you in favor of handing our Long Beach Ports over to the Communist Chinese?