03/10/2006 10:36:23 AM PST
· 15 of 17 point
to clawrence3
The Coast Guard's initial concern was exactly the uninformed knee-jerk, emotional reaction that most Americans and FReepers had too. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed at Coast Guard. Sorry I can't say the same about here.
I gotta believe the Coast Guard is a little bit more familiar with port operations than you give them credit for. Obviously there is a security issue that needed to be addressed. And while it's true that some foreign companies have ownership in our ports, not all of them cozied up to Bin Laden and al Qaeda before 9/11 like the UAE, and that's a big differnce. China may be our adverseries but, they're not al Qaeda sympathisers. The Saudis, well they've got a little funny record on this one.