Posted on 02/16/2007 6:20:44 AM PST by HAL9000
That's not completely true. Regardless of who leases the terminals, security is provided by DHS, the Coast Guard, U.S. Customs, the NY Port Authority, and whatever locals want to be involved.
OOPS. Sorry. I can't seem to type OR proofread today :-(
Yep. It was all political, meant to hurt Bush. What it achieved was to highlight the ignorance and bigotry of most Americans and tick off a lot of people. What a way for the party that wants to run the country to win the hearts and minds of the Arab world....and they complain about theh president failing to win hearts and minds!
No problem. Just trying to be accurate!
It was the unions who pushed this issue. They were afraid of losing control.
The result is that the good folks in the UAE keep the ports.
Sounds ok to me
Sounds fine to me, too, and always did. There was a very vocal community here on FR that vigoriously opposed the DP World deal on what I called xenophobic grounds. You would have thought that bin Laden himself was buying the ports.
We trust the UAE enough to sell them the very latest F-16s. The UAE has continued to be a staunch ally of the US in the WOT, yet because they are an Arab Muslem country we couldn't trust them to unload ships?
Port security is controlled by Homeland Security and shipments are controlled by Customs. DP World would have been responsible for maintaining the docks and loading equipment, and hiring American Longshoremen to do it.
....we couldn't trust them to unload ships? ......
There is a strong racial/religous bigotry against anything Arab coupled with the Don't Buy Anything Not American that shrouds many minds with a thick rind of irrational thought.
This is indeed a curious turn of events. It seems the Port Authority has prolonged their presence, perhaps till it is all forgotten. Strange!!
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