Maybe because no American company wants it. We are talking about 8 billion dollars. No American company has had it before. I think people are panicking because it is an Arab company. We are at war with radical Islam, not all Arabs. As far as Jimmah, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
"Maybe because no American company wants it. We are talking about 8 billion dollars. No American company has had it before. I think people are panicking because it is an Arab company. We are at war with radical Islam, not all Arabs. As far as Jimmah, even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
But according to the pro-deal crowd, the only thing that will change is the profit-collector. The same longshoremen and American managers will be running things. So why would no American company be interested in the deal? Or a better question is, if this is all just profit collecting, why would no American company want the deal AND the UAE company still want it?
Nobody is panicking. We just want American ports run by Americans. Just like we want American airport security personnel to be Americans. Just like we want our national security to be OUR national security first, and our allies' sensibilities come second, no matter how close or effective they are at helping us in the War on Terror.