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Strategies & Market Trends : Rande Is . . . HOME
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To: Rande Is who wrote (57306)2/23/2006 2:12:05 PM
From: Rock_nj  Read Replies (1) of 57584
 
Would we have allowed Yugoslavian company to run our ports during the Cold War? Yugoslavia was an independent Communist nation with no close ties to the Soviet Union and no desire to destroy the U.S. Would we let an affiliate by idealogy like Yugoslavian run our ports during the Cold War years? The answer is NO, NEVER.

There are many many many reasons why we should be running our own ports if we are actually serious about the War on Terrorism. Not only internal national security, such as what exactly is getting into this country, but external security too. Our ports are how we interact with the world, and if it is necessary to go to war, why should we rely on others who might have an idealogical affinity with those who we are war at to run our ports.

I guess people can rationalize a reason why the government of the UAE should be allowed to run our ports. But it certainly does not make it appear that we are taking the War on Terrorism seriously to allow something like this to happen.
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