"Being in favor of this as you apparently are, perhaps you'd like to argue why it's GOOD to have a UAE-based company taking over port operations?"
I have no passion one way or another on it. I just don't think it's the earth-ending event some of you hysterics are making it out to be. We have no reason to think DWI is a security threat. I know, I know, all Arabs are bad and that's what's driving this. But frankly I can't lose any sleep over a typical international business acquisition of one company by another. That's all this is. It's not about the UAE BUYING our ports as the far right and far left are lying about.
So I'm neither for nor against this. It has nothing about it to get empassioned about. If the story were as it is being made out that that a UAE company was buying our ports, then yes I'd be against it. But that's not what's going on. It's just an operations company. And the ports in question can opt to use another operations company if they choose. Why are you flipping out over this?
the company that operates the port has more influence over what goes on there, then the so-called "owner" of the port.
if you own an apartment building, and you hire me to operate it - I hire the workers who service the buildings, the trash collection agency, who services the air conditioners, collects the rents, the repair and renovation subcontractors, collects coins from the laundry machines, etc. you own the building, I operate it under contract from you. who has more control over the day to day comings and goings at that apartment building, me or you?
if I want to rent an apartment to some AQ terrorists because they have clear line of site from their window to a local airport, where they can fire a missile into a plane - who has more of a chance to allow that to happen, me as the operator, or you as the owner?