[RVN Airplane Driver]

Coop...you might as well give up trying to educate some on this board...some who obviously can't read and comprehend...others who were quick to judgment and now are grasping at straws to justify their former assessment of the situation. Anyone who looks at the deal with any real business sense quickly understands that the only thing that would change is that the longshoremen will be collecting a paycheck from a different entity.. In addition anyone who fails to recognize that the UAE is a valuable and irreplaceable ally in the ME....is really not very bright IMHO.

[Coop]

Bravo! Your one post said it better than my collection of posts. But don't view my posts as attempts to educate others so much as therapy for me! :-)

[hedgetrimmer]

Anyone who looks at the deal with any real business sense quickly understands that the only thing that would change is that the longshoremen will be collecting a paycheck from a different entity..

Any businessman would also note that another change would occur. The PROFITS will go to a terrorist harboring country. PROFITS that would be reinvested back into AMERICA if an AMERICAN country were running the operation.

Why is this important? If AMERICANS do not maintain their infrastructure, they cannot stay a superpower. So the ultimate goal of all this "free traitin'" thats going on, is to reduce the American domestic economy and its power, and reduce the strength of AMERICA, so that OTHER COUNTRIES can overtake her. It doesn't do, in a world of socialists, communists and dictators who make up the bulk of the "FREE TRADE SYSTEM", to have a FREE, INDEPENDENT and WEALTHY AMERICA.

[DanTheAdmin]

Spot on - not to mention the loss of business from UAE.

[Paul Ross]

Anyone who looks at the deal with any real business sense quickly understands that the only thing that would change is that the longshoremen will be collecting a paycheck from a different entity..

False. The experts at the Coast Guard disagree with you.

And the sad arguments later made based on the statements by the brass hats over-riding the early (by a whole month) opinions do not constitute persuasive considerations.

Even those who were willing to check off on a ton of the deal justifications finally choked on that. Take a look at the even-handed analysis by Kenneth Timmerman in Homeland Transparency.