[Alberta's Child]

Stop making excuses for the incompetent, self-aggrandizing jack@ss. If he's the House chairman of Homeland Security he ought to know these things. Announcements of mergers and acquisitions are highly-publicized affairs.

Heck, I've known about this DPW acquisition of P&O Ports for weeks (there's been a lot of merger/acquisition activity in that sector in recent months) . . . it just never occurred to me that there would be any kind of problem like this.

[RegulatorCountry]

"it just never occurred to me that there would be any kind of problem like this."

With the uproar over COSCO and Long Beach, and with the more recent uproar over China attempting to buy Unocal, I just don't know why it wouldn't occur to anybody that there would be problems with this. Why were people upset then? Perceived security risks. Why are they upset now? Perceived security risks.

[LibLieSlayer]

There are a lot of us that are thinking exactly as you do on this matter. Logic seems unwelcome here lately, and your posts in this thread are full of that commodity.

Thanks for being a light of reason in a sea of turmoil.

LLS