Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Dubai port deal

While I doubt that it actually endangers our national security, it is certainly fitting that a White House that so often has demagogically misused security concerns for its own partisan ends is getting a bit of the same treatment this time. For them to complain would be a bit like Jack the Ripper saying that someone is being too rough.

I also suspect corruption or at least cronyism in this matter, albeit unrelated to the Dubai issue as such, given White House practices in Iraq and elsewhere along with the news reports suggesting that the contract was awarded to a company with prominent friends.

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