[TigersEye]

If it were true that the future of our relationship with them depends on this deal, as y'all claim, that could only mean one thing anyway: We've already given them far more power than is healthy.

Snarky!

[TigersEye]

Senate doesn't bother to question P&O security chief about port security matters

"I've been wracking my brain to try to figure what bad thing might happen if someone seven levels up the chain buys the company, and I just can't think of anything," he (Robert Scavone) said.

I believe that a foreign country or a group can infiltrate workers on the ships or docks with equal ease (or difficulty) no matter who holds the lease. They do not do security, the Coast Guard, longshoremen and Ports and Customs (all American) do all of the security. Period. Even in Dubai, at present, Americans do security on every container bound for the U.S.