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This is exactly where I'm at. I don't know why this is disastrous. It looks to me like the Democrats are playing off of the fears of the Republicans on this one.

I actually tend to agree with Bush on this one --- if you withdraw now, you have set back relations with Arab countries in a HUGE way. That set-back is, it seems to me, a greater harm than the potential risk.

Perhaps the initial decision was incorrect, again I don't know, but to withdraw now...(this all sounds very familiar)

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So the easy solution is for Congress to pass a law forbidding the outsourcing of our port management to ANY foreign entity--that way, the Arabs won't feel too slighted, if Great Britain, or Israel, or Canada would be forbidden from running our ports too.

The larger point in my opinion, though, is that current public relations with the Arab world (or with anyone else for that matter) is far less important than our security.