[maryz]

politicians acted as if the Bush administration, which gave its blessing to the deal, had just exposed America's tender commercial neck to the glinting scimitars of Araby.

It struck me this morning that Jimmy Carter probably came out in favor precisely because he thought we had sold the ports themselves -- would make his Panama Canal thing look like the wave of the future!

[saveliberty]

That's one possibility. The other is that Jimmy Carter is an obliviot