"Chuck Schumer is trying to stop the sale of the six ports to UAE."
We can argue about the merits of it, but the ports aren't being sold. Ports can't be sold. They are buying the port operating division of a London-based, British-owned Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. That purchase will include current contracts that P&O ports has with the various ports listed in the stories on this. There are other port operation companies out there. The port in New York or any of the other ports mentioned could choose to contract with some other company if they do not want DWI, the UAE-based company buying P&O, being responsible for operating terminals in these ports. As we understand it the same employees who work for P&O currently will still be the employees that work there after the purchase goes through.
I don't think there are suddenly going to be Arabs running all over the ports. Anymore so than there already are. Actually because of regulations and unions, more and more of ocean shipping, port operations and terminal operations in America are being run by non-American companies. We can argue about whether that's right or wrong, but let's be accurate about what's really happening here. It's that operations are currently run by a British company being bought out by a company in the UAE. We still have full control over the ports.
Let's not fall into this trap. This is just a cheap trick by Schumer and the Dems. to look like they're to the right of the president on security issues, while undermining him in every other respect on natl. security. It's just an easy bit of positioning for them which involves misrepresenting what's going on. But on real security issues, the Dems. are actively working to undermine the country whether on Iraq, wiretapping of Al Qaeda suspects, Gitmo, etc.
Schumer plus Savage does not yield accuracy.
For anyone interested. Perhaps it's time to reread "Taipan" and other novels of that period by Clavell. Most of the characters and co.s are based on actual historical figures. They are capable of being identified by old shipping hands, inasmuch as they are only thinly disguised, and are still in existance today.
I'm not sure, but I think the officers of P&O lines are still allowed/required (?)to wear swords as part of their uniform.