Ports World 2

It sounds like the study to examine port security in the U.S. came to unsettling conclusions. Surpirse! There is no current port security! And there never has been. Oh yeah, except in Seattle. What does this mean about the Dubai Ports World deal? In my mind, it says that we would be no worse off having Ports World run our security operations in the U.S. ports, than we are with most of the other operations already in place, including Maersk, the company bought out by Ports World.

Here's my reasoning: The study found severe security lapses at almost every port in the U.S. This has been going on forever. So effectively, all we have done is get another Arab country mad at us by telling them that they would decrease the security of our ports. It seems to me that they have a right to be mad. We've been sitting around with out proverbial pants down our entire lives. Yet as soon as an Arab company tries to conduct legitimate business in our country, we act all surprised, get extremely defensive and offensive, and tell them that we won't tollerate them being around us because they might pull down our pants.

Sounds like we are what most of the world already thinks of us: racist, bigoted, narcissistic, self-righteous, hypocritical pigs.

If I were of any other nationality, that's what I would think. Oh, wait, I don't have to be of another nationality, I do think that.