UAE Port Deal

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I don't know whether to chalk this up to absolute incompetency and horrible judgment, or something more diabolical.

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I'm sorry but I can't see the problem. This is capitalism at work, as simple as that.

Money has no affiliation, principles, nationality or odor.

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Cyrus, the money aspect is the LEAST important part of the whole scenario. Just to extrapolate to the absurd, would you outsource our military command and control centers to a foreign entity? How about to a Middle Eastern foreign entity? Well if you wouldn't do that then you should have second thoughts about potentially further exposing our achilles heel with respect to terrorist attack, which is our ports.

Besides the UAE, President Musharraf of Pakistan has been a pretty good ally in the war against terrorism and Islamic extremism, and he too fears the Islamists. Why not then outsource management of our ports to Pakistan if they should happen put in a lower bid? Jeezus could anything be a bigger blunder or potentially more catastrophic.