The Daily Background

As I mentioned earlier, it’s not just progressives who are conserned sbout the ports deal. In fact, Conservatives are just as worried, if not more so (usually for racist reasons though). Editor & Publisher:

Cal Thomas of Tribune Media Services (TMS) said in his column: “There have been some dumb decisions since the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. … But the decision to sell port operations in New York, Newark-Port Elizabeth, Baltimore, Miami, Philadelphia, and New Orleans to a company owned by the UAE may be the dumbest of all. … Apparently money talked more than common sense.”

The UAE, wrote Thomas, was “used as a financial and operational base by some of the 9/11 hijackers,” was “an important transfer point for shipments of smuggled nuclear components bound for Iran, North Korea, and Libya,” and was “one of only three countries to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government before the U.S. invasion toppled it.”

And Ann Coulter? She just doesn’t like Arabs.

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