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Port Security
Does it really matter whether this deal means Dubai will control security for our ports? If they control the ports, their personnel have access, and who is monitoring their hiring?
Does our security apparatus have the power to veto their hires if we believe unsavory elements attempt to infiltrate their presumably well-intentioned company? That’s the key issue here.
Obviously, foreign ownership of a port is not in and of itself a national security issue, else we wouldn’t allow the British to currently control the ports in question.
But this issue is further evidence that the Bush whitehouse has a tin ear on these matters.
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One comment to “Port Security”
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27. February 2006 at :
Port security in general needs to be tightened. A good compromise would be for Congress to find ways to tighten security at our ports while allowing the Dubai deal to go through. But that would require Bush to compromise. This is interesting to watch since Bush is doing such a good job of digging a hole for himself.