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Edited on Thu Feb-23-06 10:09 PM by louis c
Pre-9/11 thinking put the ports in the hands of foreign companies. Our security is a different matter and mind-set now.
When I enter the State House in Boston, state troopers guard metal detectors and barriers stand at entrances. Before 9/11 this was never the case. I would stroll in and out like it was my mother's house. Airport security and other government buildings have heightened security. INS is now under homeland security, and there is much more scrutiny. I know, I married a woman from another country post 9/11.
Those who say the opposition to the Dubai port deal is racist are full of shit.
No foreign country should guard our borders or have any contract to service our ports in any way. The government should have strict guidelines over even domestic companies and their personnel.
I'm of Italian decent, and I would not consider it racist if an Italian company was denied a contract in securing or servicing our ports. That business should be American and subject to American laws.
To frame this in a way that we owe the UAE a contract to service our ports because they have been an ally for four years is ludicrous. Pakistan has the same record as the UAE. They recognized the Taliban, have 9/11 connections and their government is now a staunch ally of the United States. I guess we should give them the security of the ports of Boston, Charleston and Jacksonville. After all, we wouldn't want to offend our new allies.
What fucking nonsense. Anyone who holds public office that thinks this deal is anything but insanity, Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal or Moderate, should be run out of office.
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