Oh for heaven's sake. You mean concerns about handing over major US cities' port operations to a country which spawned 2 of the 9/11 terrorists and which denies the existence of Israel and backed the Taliban are racist?
Face it: you guys are playing the liberal race card.
It should be the same as Godwin's law (where those who invoke Nazis lose the argument), those who invoke hysterical cries of "racist" just plain automatically lose. Period.
Look, it isn't port operations, it is some terminals at certain ports. And it has been repeated enough, but let me say for the trillionth time: they aren't in charge of security....secondly, Pakistan and the Saudis recognized the Taliban also--are you saying we should pull our special forces out of working w/Pakistan to stop the terrorists in Tora Bora and Pakistan villages and we should stop importing Saudi oil? Are you ready for a law to be passed invoking punitive measures against these two nations we depend on for military launching points, cooperation and petroleum?
I'm not. The UAE is an ALLY...not a perfect one, hell, they're not the British...but they ARE a friend. And I haven't heard ANYTHING in terms of EVIDENCE that Dubai Ports World is a dangerous company. They do business and have been doing business all over the world, and they've had no terrorist incidents reported at any of their terminals...believe me, if there WERE, the 'rats, press and panicked Republicans would be touting it..."UAE MANAGED PORTS ALLOWED TERRORISTS INTO HONG KONG" or something like that...instead, we've got a company that manages the biggest terminal for U.S. Naval ships outside the USA being needlessly attacked just because they're Arabs.
Down here in Florida, we've got a shipping company that is a subsidiary of the company that lost the bidding war with Dubai Ports. So even our Republican congresspeople are griping...it may not be racism, but it certainly could be economic jealousy and pandering....
That's how I see it anyway. :)
"Face it: you guys are playing the liberal race card"
In addition to the ad hominen attacks.
It's a poor substitute for confronting the opposing arguments.
Do you have credible evidence that this specific company, these corporate managers, have any connetion to crime, terrorism, or have ever threatened port security ever, anywhere?
I assume you would need that to oppose this deal, assuming you were basing your opposition on evidence . . .