I highly recommend you go over to Billy the Blogging Poet’s site and take a look at some of the info he’s dug up re. the now infamous deal to let a UAE controlled company buy a company that will manage some of the most important ports in the US.  Ends up there’s a lot more than six ports involved, and terrorism is probably not the greatest worry here.

I’ve said this on other peoples’ blogs, but I wanted to go on the record here: I’m really surprised that we allow any of our critical infrastructure (ports, airports, depots, pipelines, etc.) to be owned or managed by foreign entities.  The biggest shock to me isn’t that a UAE-owned country is being allowed to do this, but that ANY foreign-owned company is being allowed to do this.

You might think this is isolationist.  Not at all, as I see no need to cut trade with other countries but for goodness sakes lets keep the keys to the henhouse in our own pockets.  And to put the shoe on the other foot if I were living in the UAE I wouldn’t want an American company managing my ports.