The UAE port issue is completely erroneous [View All]

[underpants]

Okay I will go ahead and say it.

I know this is all good for our side (W looks bad-may have to change the decision) but I find the whole thing to be typical news dirt kicking and then reporting on their courageous clean up efforts.



First off ( * see below) all that happened is that the FOREIGN company that already ran the port operations agreed to be aquired by another FOREIGN company from another FOREIGN country. The new FOREIGN country just happens to be Arabian. BOO!!!

Second they run the operations. They aren't going to be okaying or not okaying specific boxes to get through. Hell from all the reports I have read it would be pretty easy to get anything you want into this country as it is. Maybe more attention and energy should be paid to THAT and not BS political grandstanding about something that those now donning the capes don't seem to care too much about otherwise.

Third, so if Company A is AMERICAN it is okay for them to run the operations of these ports. Well that flies right into the face of the market economy ideals that we have been sold over the last 30 years (Lewis Powell is spinning in his grave)-this UAE company that just bought the Brit firm that was already doing this seems to know what they are doing and are more than quailified. What's to stop this Company A from simply sub-contracting the work out to the UAE company anyway? Are we simply demanding a middle man for purely nationalistic reasons?

Net does any of this make any difference to the day to day operations at these ports?

*http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/21/port.security/index.html

Earlier this month, shareholders of the UK-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O) approved the company's acquisition by Thunder FZE, a subsidiary of Dubai-based Dubai Ports World.

P&O directs commercial operations at the six U.S. ports. The takeover by DPW means that the Dubai company will be in charge of those operations