Can anyone explain exactly how this deal would jeopardize U.S. security? It is a port...the same cargo that came in before the new company owns it will come in afterward. The same screening that used to happen will happen...it isn't the owner of the port that runs that...is it...I just think this is a knee jerk reaction for everyone to freak out like this. Unless I am proved wrong. Which is definitely possible.
I just think this is a knee jerk reaction for everyone to freak out like thisOf course it is.
Nobody seems to be concerned that the same UAE is in charge of the ports that ship the container. So, if they wanted to blow something up, they could have done it when P&O was in charge.
This is much ado about nothing, but the politicos and blogs are frantic that a friendly Muslim nation might actually operate some ports.
Coming so soon after the Muslim riots over the cartoons, it's an understandable reaction. But, silly, nonetheless.
It is a port...the same cargo that came in before the new company owns it will come in afterward. The same screening that used to happen will happen...it isn't the owner of the port that runs that...is it...I just think this is a knee jerk reaction for everyone to freak out like this. I'm opposed to it not becasue of national security, I'm opposed it it because it is a government taking over a private company (I understand the company in the UAE is wholly owned by the UAE government). I don't like it when a government runs a private business -- especially a government headed by a monarch.