You are right about some of the opposition. They are so certain of the importance of sealing the borders that they are willing to abandon the middle east to Al Qaeda just so long as we build a big wall to keep out mexicans.
Whatever company buys the U.S. subsidiaries which run these terminals, they won't be able to run the terminals as well as DP WOrld, they won't be able to upgrade security like DP WOrld. And DP World won't have to give us access to the stuff they were going to give us access to, and they won't cooperate like they would have.
I bet this won't mollify the opponents of the deal, but in any case we will be less secure.
If in the next 5 years we have a terrorist act through these terminals, after DP World transfers the operations to a U.S. company, I assume all the republicans who voted yesterday will resign their offices.
And all those Freepers who said we would be perfectly safe so long as UAE doesn't run the ports will all publicly apologize and pay compensation to the victims.
Why are you trashing the American company already? They haven't even announced who's taking over the contract.
please spare us this stuff about "DPW is the greatest ports company in the world". the same people who were once claiming that "nothing would change" at the ports if DPW got the contracts, are now the first to jump in and say "the new contractors are going to be a disaster". you told us before that "nothing would change" at the ports, that it was just a paper transaction, just a change in the holding company. now all of a sudden, everything is changing?
I am pretty sure I'm right, the merits of the deal have little to do with it, it has become a symbol of a far larger battle, Globalists vrs Americans. I happen to be on the side of the Americans. Too bad about UAE, caught in the cross fire.