Tuesday, February 21, 2006
We can't profile at the airport, but we can profile an entire country?
The outrage over the UAE port transfer is making laughingstocks of both Houses of Congress. The faux outrage by the Democrats is especially delicious. In speech after speech lately we have been hearing that President Bush is just playing the fear card. There is nothing to be concerned with and suddenly we are told that an entire country can't be trusted. The third largest port operator in the world must be kept away from America. It's not like this country is Iran or North Korea, but let's go ahead and piss off one of our best allies in the region, the United Arab Emirates.
Let's look at some of the positive things that the debate or the deal itself will bring about.
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Let's look at some of the positive things that the debate or the deal itself will bring about.
- We should easily be able to start some sensible profiling now.
- The Democrats will have a tough time scooting back behind their "no threat" curtain.
- Dubai Ports World is State owned, so any funny business and there is no ambiguous target.
- The original outrage pretending that this is about port security will make it easier to actually implement some strong security measures.
- It makes it that much harder for the Muslim clerics to fan the flames of hatred.
- Strengthens our ties with a strong Arab ally.
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