OK, if you are a terrorist group with the means to get a hold of a ship, doesn’t this seem like a ‘welcome mat’ to cause some serious destruction in downtown NYC??
As Rush said today, all this does is get the government out of the way so things will work more smoothly. This is a “get the government out of the way” case study playing out right before our eyes. And is indicative of everything that is wrong about big government ...
Foreign vessels enter NY Harbor all the time already.
All this does is allow foreign vessels to carry cargo from somewhere else in the US to NY Harbor; the Jones Act normally prevents this - all shipping from a US port to another US port has to be in a US Flag (and US constructed) vessel.