Reply #58: I think the hot button behind the outrage is the 9/11 deaths of thousands [View All]

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at the hands of people from the country who is behind the port deal. Either dem or repub would garner the same outrage. UAE has a long track record of illegal money laundering and ties to OBL ands other terrorists as well as nuclear arms shipments. There are also economic issues in play here as well. We do not need to offshore any more jobs, or try to break anymore unions as the British company was trying to do. In fact one reason the British company was put up for sale was that it could not break the shipping union. Middle and working class Americans will have a difficult time keeping jobs with living wages if the unions do not return. Reagan is still kicking middle class Americans via Bush.

In say 1950, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor,for example, if we had turned our port op's over to Japan, who would be outraged?