A Middle East Country wants to take over our ports, do you agree?
110423
yup, worse is its being sold by the politicians.
113747
I do not object to this sale.  Please TRY to understand: Those ports are NOT being sold at all.  They will still be owned by Americans; Americans will still provide security; Americans will still work at the ports.  All that is being sold is the company (P&O) that manages freight handling at the ports.\nWe are not being sold down the river.  The government of Dubai will not receive classified info on our military shipments from the ports.  Who cares if they know how many Barbie dolls and sneakers are being shipped to the US?\nShutting Muslims out of the US business community for no good reason only serves to alienate them, and hinders our ability to fight terrorism.
141048
Do you really want to know all the details of why such ports are being given to a Middle-eastern business to run?  What if it is a sting operation?  Should we just publish the details and fight it?  Isn't that what we're doing?\nLeave it alone.  Bush knows what he is doing.
1070705
Yes.  The US has vital interests in the Middle East and Hamas is sworn to destroy them.
603231
we're already over the head with foreign people, and you wanna come too?\n\ndoesn't your country want you?
140610
give me a break.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nthere is actually no new deal being made.  The British comapany that already manages the ports is being bought out by a corporation owned primarily by citizens of the United Arab Emarites.  The question at hand is wether or not to try to get out of our contract.  Since the British company will still be managing our ports, there is no reason to suspect that a terrorist plot is going on.  Micheal Moore Edits Answers that he doesn't like from his films and usually slants what is included.  Maybe if you read somthing other than Liberal propaganda (including the textbooks found in public and some private schools) you would get the whole story.
790609
What a mess! USA, Saudi, Saudi, Turkey, Iran, Syria all looking to control the Iraqi oil, the US. sure has a lot to answer for, the instability is has created will cause problems for many years in the middle east, was this the intention? maybe it was, oilmen love high oil prices, arms manufacturers, and military suppliers love war. This catastrophe was predicted, but ignored. Now no-one can predict what will happen next, but you can sure there will be no peace in the region. The Bush regime will back the Saudis as they are like one big family, maybe Saudi approves/ helped develop US. policy, whatever happens the Shites will unite, and if they are bombed they'll unite more quickly. The US. will continue to guard their stolen oil fields, until their war funding is cut off, and when they are forced to leave it will be a free-for-all.
121475
Since the ports in question were already managed by foreign interests, what difference what country the owner is from? The U.S. government handles security of all ports and many americans are employed there. The UAE has the largest port of the U.S. naval fleet in the entire mideast region and they are good allies and trading partners. \nBesides the obvious fact that congress should be notified in more advance of such a potential security issue in our country (and this is a matter of interpretation), nothing out of the ordinary has transpired with this transaction. Many corporations here are run by foreign companies. It is just more partisan politicking to cast doubt on the current presidential administration's policies.
159185
Yes, it is becasue it is an Arab country. The US right now is going through an identity crisis.\n\nWe make it our business to spread democracy and freedom around the world, yet when a party is democratically elected, and we don't like them, we want to break diplomatic relations. (Hamas)\n\nWe belive in free trade/market, and have allowed businesses from other countries maintain our ports, yet now that there is an Arab country involved, it is a problem.\n\nThe United States does not know what position it is to hold in the world.
1057894
I would want control of the middle-east so I could have waged war on myself a long time go. The whole area is a giant barren waste of space. I would have pumped all the oil out first though.
129989
Where in the middle east? Too mush is going on there. There is Iraq, which US is occupying.  There is Palestine, which Israel is occupying.  There is Syria and Iran which are aiding all the insurgents. Pls be specific.
551374
no but i think we should NUKE the middle east and then go in and take oil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
631118
They do they want it liberated ...from the USA.
403965
No, I guess we should do like the previous poster, and start bowing to Mecca.\n\nI think we should export every Arab on a college campus right now and immediately search any Arab in an airport.
540889
i support zionism.  everybody deserves a home, but where can the jewish people go?  now they have Isreal, so they should keep it.  but that land was arab land, taken from other people.  who has the right to decide who gets what land? well, mabey superpowers :).  i am truely happy for the jewish people that they finally got a place to call home after thousands of years of hardship and opression.  i hope Isreal lives a long and prosperous life as on of the only civilized countries in the Middle East region.
146272
I'm very comfortable with it. Nothing is going to change, except a DIFFERENT foreign country will be handling the day-to-day COMMERCIAL operation of the ports. It is currently being handles by a British company. SECURITY in the ports will still be handled by the Dept. of Homeland Security (US Coast Guard and Border Patrol).\n\nWhy is everyone being so racist over this topic. It is OK for white Europeans to run the ports, but everyone seems to act like all Middle Easterners are terrorists. Does anyone remember Timothy McVeigh? He was a white American terrorist. Therefore, by the way of thinking everyone has, all white Americans must be terrorists.
701487
Worry about your own country. We'll take of ours.