[Mo1]

The whole 'review of all terminals' was just an excuse to kill THIS deal, and that much was transparent to me. I guess it could kill any 'arab deal', but who knows.

I don't think it's because of an arab deal

Something else is up and pushing this reaction from the Hill and I don't think it has anything to do with national security

I just can't pin point it though

[snugs]

Do you think there is another take over of a US company/operation in the wind?

Or is it something to do more with just politics?

I think you may well be right with your thinking that there is more behind this than we are seeing.

[Cboldt]

Something else is up and pushing this reaction from the Hill and I don't think it has anything to do with national security

I just can't pin point it though

I think it's nothing more than the everyday combination of groupthink and "can't ever admit mistake" entrenchment. Irrational, but very common behavior. In the case of pols, they are following the lead of what they hear from constituents, and the initial reaction FROM ALL QUARTERS was strongly biased against the sale.

[mathluv]

The port deal is raising awareness of how our ports are operated. It is strange, that under the toon, no one objected to China being given that authority. Now we also find out that Saudi is running some of the ports.

It is made to sound like they are taking over the entire port, not just some berths in that port. According to P&O's web site, they only had up to 7berths in one port, and as few as 2 in another.

We are also hearing that only 5% of containers are being checked. The voices saying that 100% are checked from the EXIT port is not being heard.

It is frustrating how much ignorance on the topic is being repeated, often, and how little any real knowledge is mentioned.