Dubai and W

• All right, this whole hot topic about let­ting Dubai Ports World man­age six US ports has me con­fused. So, is it a ter­ri­ble idea or not?
  
  For once, the polit­i­cal lines are blurred. On the (minis­cule) right print media, Wall St. Jour­nal and Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor are for it; the New York Daily News is against it.

  And so on. Right alt-media for and against; left alt-media for and against.

  And the lefty print media … well, of the biggest papers, I couldn’t find a sin­gle one against the ports deal. Wash­ing­ton Post and The Boston Globe and The LA TimesAND New York Times are for it is for it (and for the record, I believe that’s the first time I’ve ever seen the NYT pass on an oppor­tu­nity to trash-talk Bush).

  And of course you’ve got all sorts of politi­cians arrayed for and against, but unfor­tu­nately, I kind of tend to assume in a big mid-term elec­tion year that every­thing they have to say has to do with posturing.

  So I guess I’m start­ing to lean toward think­ing maybe it is just a tem­pest in a teapot. I’ll tell you though, this quote from my favorite blog­ger (of the non-Christian-oriented sort any­way), James Lileks, says it all for why if noth­ing else, the Bush admin­is­tra­tion should have real­ized that it would strike us Reg­u­lar Folks as a bad (and I mean, baaaad) idea:

  I’m not wor­ried that some evil emir is putting a pinky to his mon­o­cled eye, and say­ing Mwah! at last I have them where I want them! I’m wor­ried about the guy who’s three steps down the man­age­ment branch hand­ing off a job to a brother who trusts some guys who have some sym­pa­thies with some guys who hang around some rather ener­getic fel­lows who attend that one mosque where the guy talks about jihad 24/7, and some­how some­one gets a job some­where that makes it eas­ier for some­thing to happen.

  That’s a lot of ifs and maybes. But I don’t want any ifs and maybes. You can’t elim­i­nate them all, of course, but I would rather we had a sys­tem devoted to wor­ry­ing about ifs and maybes instead of adopt­ing an offi­cial pol­icy of Whatever.

  
  

  Related posts:

  1. The Bat­tle for New Orleans
  2. Miers with­draws

  
  
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