Wake up people! I don't need a loyalty test, I'd just like some plain common sense. It's main street values I'm after, not those of a Houston Country Club.
Is there any real difference between turning the ports over to a company from Dubai and turning the western wilderness lands over to the multi-national timber and gas companies? Really, would we want the Russians running the US ports instead?? What if the company from Dubai were clear-cutting and strip mining our wild lands that have always been American treasures? This is what the 'left' complains about when they complain about globalization.
If I twist my tin foil hat ever so slightly I see the Chinese allowing the Waltons to keep their name on Walmart because they are smart enough to know that having a Chinese name on the store would be bad for business.
Face it, twisting arms in other countries so that they open their natural resources to our corporations means we have to open ourselves to the same beast.
Watch out, because the next time you look up a Japanese/Korean fishing fleet will be busy cleaning out our offshore fishing grounds, and the Indians will be dismantling our computer industry (and the Arabs will be running our ports). ---Oops, too late or all three counts.
And Bush won't even understand why you are concerned. Face it, he's not a conservative and this is not about profiling Arabs.
Yes a few boats will rise on a sea of global prosperity (no pun intended) as we sell the ports and the forests and main streets to foreign corporations or multi-nationals. It's just that the new owners will not have our national interests at the top of their agenda. I don't mind a Mexican company opening a chain of fried chicken restaurants or a French company making candy to sell in the grocery store. That is a different issue. I'm talking about divesting our natural resources and national jewels to people whose loyalty is not to the United States.
That would be superior to this