To: standingfirm
My problem is that I don't know what ownership means. What does the owner really control in a situation like this. One would assume taut they control everything, from regulating who and what comes into the ports, to who is hired and who is fired.
Homeland security says they checked out all they needed to make certain that the security of the US is well considered. What does that mean? We ran the names of the owners through the computers and learned that they all had clean records?
Did we put "rules" in place for how they are to keep the people of the US safe? That means nothing if the rules are never enforced.
Homeland security says they have all the resources they need for the Mexican border patrol, yet thousands penetrate our borders.
I'm sorry, but I support anyone who does something concrete about our border security, and the monitoring and control of our ports is right up there with the southern border and illegal immigration.
Talk is cheap, but I see only window dressing on this issue, when it comes to allowing Muslim princes own American ports which have long been identified as probable targets for terrorism by Muslim extremists.
This is a mistake on so may fronts. Let the Muslims princes invest in other things that are not so closely connected with National Security.
Would you allow these same people to buy American fighter plane manufacturers?
56 posted on
02/20/2006 8:45:29 AM PST by
LachlanMinnesota
(The real Churchill knew a blood thirsty gutter snipe when he saw one.)
To: LachlanMinnesota
The question is, what happens if Dubai is suddenly taken over by Muslim extremists? What recourse would the US have then?
58 posted on
02/20/2006 8:47:29 AM PST by
dfwgator
To: LachlanMinnesota
"Homeland security says they have all the resources they need for the Mexican border patrol, yet thousands penetrate our borders."
When the so called dept of Homeland security argues for putting muslims in charge of our strategic ports, that tells me we got some pyschos at the helm leading us to destruction.
Homeland Security was established to protect us from muslims, not install them in sensitive strategic ports.
These pyschos must go. We can't stand down on this one and allow them to set us up for the kill by our sworn enemy.
75 posted on
02/20/2006 9:09:08 AM PST by
takenoprisoner
(Afterall, American ports run by muslims is a good thing right?)
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