Selling them, leasing terminals, whatever--all the confusion over the nature of this deal underscores the point I was really trying to make. We don't know enough about this deal to decide whether it makes sense or not. Why not "slow the train down" until we know more about it? That, to me, is the issue. As I said before, I haven't decided whether I support the deal or not. I'm trying to take an informed position and I don't know enough about it yet. I care enough about my country and its security to give this deal some serious consideration. There's nothing wrong with that.
It's amazing to me that any member of Congress, who should already know how the process works, who should already know that no U.S. company provides these services, and who should already know that Arab concerns already provide suchs services in the United States, are suddenly concerned that the process they created worked, and that one of the tops commercial port specialists bid on the project.