Agreed - the notion of "racism" being played up here is wrong - (interestingly enough...it is the MSM who are trying to "hype" the situation in somewhat of a racial or "profiling" tone.....yet they won't push such an agenda in any other legitimate area).
Nonetheless.
While the "racism" argument is foolish.
Those against allowing this UAE company to purchase these said ports...are also completely foolish. And ill-informed about the realities.
They too are trying to "hype" their support of "national security" when in all reality these ports being owned by a UAE will do absolutely nothing in terms of changing our security here. Absolutely nothing will change. We will be just as secure with a UAE company owning these ports as we are today with a British company owning them.
I call bs on that.
If they are in charge of port operations, then that leaves the door wide open for some "special shipments" from our friends in the ME.
Why take that chance in a time of war? You may be 100% correct but this is not a decision you make in the middle of a war. You know, a lot of people are starting to say aloud what some have whispered for months. Just how serious are we about "Homeland Security", when we encourage deals like this and don't even get me started on the border. It's almost like we are determined to undermine our own security. Israel would never make itself as soft a target as this administration seems hell bent on making us.
It would be quite comforting to look at everything within a monocular, however this is a prismatic world.
I look at the UAE in terms of many threads. They have gotten a lot of control over terminals in many places in the west. Couple that with the Dubais gold and commodity bourse, the gold dinar, and petrodollars that quite frankly are useful only as far as they are allowed to be spent by our government and you can see a strategy emerging.
There are other threads weaving through the ME and I don't like what I am seeing.
This goes beyond corporatist globalism. This is shift.