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For those who didn't get enough of port stories:

John Podhoretz says Congress saved Bush again.
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/60733.htm

The New York Times editorializes, "Even if the battle over DP World is headed toward a resolution, our ports remain dangerously vulnerable to terrorist intrusions."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/10/PORTS.TMP

Marc Sandalow of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, "The collapse of the Dubai port deal was a victory for the politics of fear."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/10/PORTS.TMP

The Washington Post looks at just how deeply overseas firms are entrenched at our ports.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/09/AR2006030902375.html

The Seattle Times reports on SSA, the U.S.-owned company that is the ninth largest port operator in the world, now first in line to be the beneficiary of DPW's decision yesterday. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002855717_ssa10.html For the record, SSA, who already had joint venture operations with P&O (the company acquired by DPW earlier this month) did not see any security concerns in the deal. The Washington Times reports on SSA and the other company in the running, Maher http://www.washtimes.com/business/20060309-104107-9144r.htm.

The Washington Times also performs editorial jujitsu on Chuck Schumer, calling him the "exploiter-in-chief of the Dubai acrimony" and slamming him for an underhanded Senate maneuver conducted by duping a member of his own party.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060309-085708-8309r.htm

ANDREW YOU'LL LIKE THIS ONE:
The Baltimore Sun editorializes, "There's no cause for celebration in yesterday's announcement that a Dubai-owned company will sell its interest in the management of six American ports in order to quell a political prairie fire that was about to engulf the White House."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.port10mar10,0,6952609.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines

Lastly, Linda Feldmann and Gail Russell Chaddock examine "Why the Dubai deal collapsed" in the Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0310/p25s02-usfp.html