The ports deal was a euphemism for other issues that Americans feel powerless to deal with. On this issue, their voice had power, rightly or wrongly.
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.
The disgusting stench of hypocrisy has spread across our country.
The stench is especially strong in the Clinton neighborhood, but it lingers (in a bipartisan way) among politicians and pundits.
Foreign involvement is nothing new [COSCO - Red Chinese gov't co. - runs terminals]
Where were our polticians and the MSM when the Red Chinese government's company (COSCO - an admitted arm of the Red Chinese military) was given exemptions to US shipping laws and permitted to control a terminal on the West Coast? That company, COSCO, had previously provided the ship which smuggled illegal arms into the US.
Where were the pols and MSM when Clinton guaranteed a loan to the Red Chinese so they could build a nuclear reactor which powers the shipyard which builds their warships?
Where were the pols and MSM when Clinton guaranteed a loan for COSCO (an arm of the Beijing government) to build ships in Mobile, AL?
Isn't this ironic....
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.
You are so damn wrong. The Coast Guard cleared this up and was not as you seem to imply. Another RAT crap.