Wednesday, February 22, 2006
The port issue
It will be interesting to see how this plays out...
This column in the Wall Street OpinionJournal discusses the various aspects and political motivations and perhaps opportunism:
"As for the Democrats, we suppose this is a two-fer: They have a rare opportunity to get to the right of the GOP on national security, and they can play to their union, anti-foreign investment base as well. At a news conference in front of New York harbor, Senator Chuck Schumer said allowing the Arab company to manage ports 'is a homeland security accident waiting to happen.' Hillary Clinton is also along for this political ride."
"So the same Democrats who lecture that the war on terror is really a battle for 'hearts and minds' now apparently favor bald discrimination against even friendly Arabs investing in the U.S.? Guantanamo must be closed because it's terrible PR, wiretapping al Qaeda in the U.S. is illegal, and the U.S. needs to withdraw from Iraq, but these Democratic superhawks simply will not allow Arabs to be put in charge of American longshoremen. That's all sure to play well on al Jazeera."
