[lepton]

Americans of both major political stripes, in significant numbers, don't trust Arab Muslims to run the ports.

Yep...and that concept has very nearly nothing to do with the deal theoretically being debated.

[HitmanLV]

Yep, but it helped cultivate the public perception about the deal. Bush utterly failed to convince people otherwise.

When communication fails, responsibility is more wisely placed with the communicator and not on the audience.