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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
There's nothing logical about it. You haven't bothered to understand the facts, I believe. You haven't done an honest comparrison of the qualitative difference between how things will operate on a day-to-day basis under current management vs. under DP's management (answer = 0).
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A competent American company will do the same job, only the money generated won't being going into the coffers of a non-democratic nation's royal family. That's a logical assessment.
It is not reasonable to give or sell something as important as our port operations to another governemnt, no matter how many of our lobbiest they buy tell us it's okay. That's logic.
It is also logical that anything that might increase risk rather than decrease it as far as security is concerned should be avoided. How logically does having a foreign governemnt from a region of the world full of enemies owning part of our ports decrease risk?
I understand more than the facts. I can ask more questions, draw more conclusions and have multiple angles to back up my position. You are relying on a single conclusion about day-to-day port operations to prove the depth of your logical analysis? I think you fail to grasp not only the facts, but also the myriad of conclsions a person can draw from them.
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As for heartfelt -- well that's the whole problem, isn't it? My whole argument is that the attitude around this is based too much on *feeling,* with all its accompanied prejudices.
And mean, be honest, how many Americans looked into how port security is run? How many more do you think said, "Arabs? Hell no!" and let that be the extent of their analysis?
And, my statement that you take offense to was a statement about the majority. I didn't say you, wookie, were anything.
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I doubt American's are bigots or isolationists. I see nothing wrong at all with protectionism, if applied fairly. I'm far more concerned about the lack of democracy in the UAE and the lack of transparency with how our Executuive handled the deal rather than conjectured racism, put-downs, and sweeping generalizations.
If looking out for home, best as well as first, is now somehow wrong.... damn me to hell I say. I'm the coolest kind of wrong.