Shiping Ports the the Arabs...? what do you guys think?

[Lohman446]

You mean like Mafia in the East of the US or the Triad in the West?

The stink is just the same as the uproar over the Chinese company trying to buy a big US oil company. The terrorism angle is a convenient excuse.

If it's not convenient it's downright stupid. It's not like the ports suddenly become non-US territory and anyone can comme and work there. And it's still government agency responsibility to enforce immigration and customs.

Heck the Saudis outright own a HUGE chunk of the US, what does it matter if the UAE simply manages a portion?

No... I mean the extremism that brews in certain parts of the world that makes it acceptable to want to kill every American man, woman, and child. The same extremism that helped people justify flying two airplanes into buildings filled with non-combatants. I'm not so extreme as to call for stopping of the transfer, I understand it may work, nor am I totally oblivious to the issues with it.

[SCpoloRicker]

The same extremism that helped people justify flying two airplanes into buildings filled with non-combatants.

"Now you see, everything changed after 9/11..."

??

[Lohman446]

"Now you see, everything changed after 9/11..."

The idea that the middle east is not full of zealots (more so than other parts of the world) willing to martyr themselves seems pretty evident to me. Perhaps thats "racist" of me. I don't think it has anything to do with race though, I think it has a lot to do with the religous/political environment.

[frontrunner]

from my undersanding of the control of the ports is being contracted out not security the coast guard and the other branches will still be responsible for keeping them safe

[Glickman]

from my undersanding of the control of the ports is being contracted out not security the coast guard and the other branches will still be responsible for keeping them safe

Yes! THANK GOODNESS OUR OWN SECURITY FORCE WILL BE PROTECTING THE SHIPPING!

I really feel protected since we only scan as the daily show says: someodd-5% of what comes into our nation


I have no problem with another country doing this. what i DO have a problem is this certain country, the UAE; have been known to have funded parts of the terrorism that involved 9/11.

Give us security from Israel. You wont see any smart talking kids on the docks anymore

[BeaverEater]

I just don't like the whole issue of it being contracted out. Sry I don't trust many people here let alone another nation.

you do realize that these ports in question are already being contracted out to an english company.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

you do realize that these ports in question are already being contracted out to an english company.

...and the sale undoubtedly threw a monkey-wrench into the British plan to take back their lost 13 colonies.

[FactsOfLife]

Yes! THANK GOODNESS OUR OWN SECURITY FORCE WILL BE PROTECTING THE SHIPPING!

I really feel protected since we only scan as the daily show says:

couldn't read past this. stop watching that show and save your brain.

[SCpoloRicker]

I concede

I concede to lohman and his superior over/under skills.

[Dharma punk]

xenophobia kills...

[Glickman]

couldn't read past this. stop watching that show and save your brain.

pretty obvious i was making fun of the show. that does not say that the facts are not relatively true though. I would feel much more secure with say, and israel company protecting out shipping; even though security it not whats being changed.

[FactsOfLife]

pretty obvious i was making fun of the show. that does not say that the facts are not relatively true though. I would feel much more secure with say, and israel company protecting out shipping; even though security it not whats being changed.

I know this, I was kidding too..... o_0

[matt-o]

Poll is flawed, we aren't letting them buy or even control PORTS. We're considering letting them manage some TERMINALS.

The difference is vast.

And the media and the jackasses demonizing this issue without even getting the basic FACTS right is laughable yet so very predictable.

Hey guess what?

There's already several DOZEN terminals in the California area that are under CHINESE management...

man, you just know everything, dont you? :dodgy:

This is another non-issue that has been blow out of proportion by those that have a hate America agenda.

nobody here hates america, dont try to play that card

[matt-o]

couldn't read past this. stop watching that show and save your brain.

dont get me started, the daily show gives about as many facts in a half hour as a regular news show and is no more biased. they just admit to the bias.

[BeaverEater]

dont get me started, the daily show gives about as many facts in a half hour as a regular news show and is no more biased. they just admit to the bias.

Ya but they arent there to give facts or actual news, its just supposed to be a joke on how the media is. the sad thing is, its becoming more and more factual that a regular news show. I refuse to get my news from the television at all.