[commonerX]

"""They're not all Americans now. And there also are arab-flagged vessels that routinely visit our ports even now and have ample opportunity to review our security. It's not like that level of security is secret."""

It is not a matter of secrecy but a matter of allowing people who want to destroy this country (not just anybody)observing, weaknesses, patterns, and schedules of the security departments operating there. A person from Britain is not inclined to want to kill us or send info back to terrorist organizations, the risk is far less.

People who are for this deal seem to think that people who are against it think that the UAE government or the Dubai Company would be doing the attack. They wouldn't but someone within there company or government might. Terrorist will take worker families hostage and threaten them in order to get the info they want. Once they have it the worker is no longer needed, the terrorist will have what they need.

This is not a far fetched scenario and I am sure the terrorist are far more creative I fear.

Everything the US government does isn't always the right thing and if we the people don't call them on it we deserve what we get.

[XJarhead]

It is not a matter of secrecy but a matter of allowing people who want to destroy this country (not just anybody)observing, weaknesses, patterns, and schedules of the security departments operating there.

They can get that anyway simply by gathering information from all their ships that visit those terminals. They're not going to get anything extra just because DPW runs some terminals.

One thing I have noticed -- and its pretty universal -- is that the more people know about ports and port procedures, the less concerned they are about this deal. The shipping experts, whether civilian or our own military, almost uniformly agree that this is much ago about nothing.