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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Ports and Political Opportunism

You have to be fucking kidding me.

This just screams of political opportunism.

I hate politicians. Expect more on this tonight. I am writing a column for the newspaper on this.

Gar.

-Mr. Alec

posted by Alec Brandon @ 1:40 PM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 3:33 PM, Blogger Alec Brandon said...

Here is a good link:

http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/002595.html

Here is my synopsis on the security question in my soon to be finished column:

One has to look no further than the sham of a political scandal this week over Dubai Ports World (DP)—a United Arab Emirates owned port Management Company—taking over the British based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). While fools in Congress were trying to seem tough on security and pro-American (which I guess means anti-Arab) by calling for a halt to the takeover, it turned out that the deal had absolutely no bearing on our security. The port management company’s responsibilities are limited to marketing the port, hiring labor, loading ships, and moving cargo. The Coast Guard, Homeland Security, and harbor police (who are managed independent of the management company) are those tasked with securing and monitoring our ports. Based on this rationale, we might want to block the Dubai based airline Emirates Airlines from flying into the U.S., but that would be ridiculous. The hostile reception to this deal smacks of nothing but political opportunism.

Expect more shortly.

-Mr. Alec

 

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