1. To be charitable you could say this is all pure politics. The only other answer is that there is an orchestrated campaign to deny the US any overseas allies in its efforts to keep the fight as far away as possible.

2. I do not know how the heck the public gets advised of these machinations without the don't call me unpatriotic and it is only propoganda charges being pushed by the MSM and the Hollywood crowd.

A. Maybe the White House needs to call in a few reporters into a room full of pictures of heads chopped off, women hung for being raped, and bomb victims.

Ditto for the Congress.

Ditto for the "I love everybody, except US foreign policty" religeous types.

B. Maybe the White HOuse needs to call in a few patriotic Hollywood types and suggest that they obtain the financing for a few "the USA is good" films.

3. The battle in the USA will be won with a good PR machine. The White House has to spearhead it in such a way that there can be no place to hide for those inside the USA with the platform or money to attack the US.

But the agency that is responsible for port security, the Coast Guard, had some problems with the deal that were ignored:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/27/AR2006022700202.html?nav=rss_print/asection

Certainly warrants following the law and going through the 45 day examination process instead of shoving the deal down everyone's throat.

Sure, I don't disagree with rational analysis and skepticism.

fish, that same article says: "Later, the Coast Guard said in a statement that the excerpts of its preliminary evaluation "when taken out of context, do not reflect the full, classified analysis" that eventually concluded "that DP World's acquisition of P&O, in and of itself, does not pose a significant threat to U.S. assets in ports" in the continental United States." Coast Guard initially has some questions, those questions were answered to their satisfaction. It's a non-story.

An explanation as to why there was no 45 day examination and why that didn't violate the law is here. And this is supported by a Post story here:

[O]nce Dubai Ports World had agreed to the conditions required by Homeland Security, none of the agencies on CFIUS objected to the transaction when the 30-day review was completed on Jan. 17. If even one agency had objected, the matter would have gone to a 45-day investigation -- which would have required a presidential decision at the end. Moreover, a single dissent would have meant bringing the matter before higher-ranking officials in each department.

But instead, the matter stayed with assistant secretary-level officials, who told the company the transaction could go forward.

The story also mentions several of DP World's executives are American, and the company's chief operating officer is a former US Navy officer.

Why did this get to be prejudice against Muslims (a religion, not a race..just sayin'). This is a war against infiltration, not armies. To win the enemy needs to infiltrate our country and blow stuff up. If they are working right smack dab inside of good places to blow up, which political side is going to make the best excuses after the explosion? Who cares? Let's just not have Muslim countries running major industries for now, we can always change our minds later.

This is not a private company. I don't know why people aren't more alarmed by that. You are putting a lot of trust in the future stability of a Muslim kingdom. There is a history of the US doing that in the region (Shah of Iran anyone?).

And what's all this business about hurting their feelings? Are we dealing with teenagers here? Cartoons hurt their feelings, western culture insults them, they boycott Israel so I guess Jews hurt their feelings. I know, let’s sell our Ports operating contract to grownups (Can you imagine Tony Blair pouting about his feelings over a business deal?)

Instead of a congressional "review", let’s see the statements and activities of the royal family over the past few years, newsclips and video. How moderate or modern they are within the palace is the question, not the efficiency of the port operations. Every media reporter should be swarming to UAE, there is where the real story is. Americans are nice people, show us who these new “friends” are and we’ll embrace them soon enough. Until then, let’s just pass. No offense intended.

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