Now Kevin, how can you say our security will improve because of this deal, when your argument has been that they won't have any important role in our security ?? Which is it? Because if they can play a positive improvement roll, it makes it possible that they can also play a negative one too.
I'm sorry if you're looking for one specific reason why people are oppossing this. When idiots like homeland security actually have a problem with SOMETHING for like a second even it really is a stop the presses kind of moment.
By the way, aren't you kind of disturbed that 6 ports became 21 ports, and there's yet another Carlyle connection to all to all of this?
I'm sure you've heard, the UAE just confiscated history textbooks from a private American school, because they didn't like the chapters on the mid-east & Israel.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...on=theuae&col= They fund the Edward Sai'd chair at Columbia's middle eastern studies program, which is now filled by a former PLO spokesman. They still fund Hamas.
Why shouldn't we worry about Islamists making moves towards the global port control this article describes....
http://canadafreepress.com/2006/jonsson022506.htm