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March 10, 2006
"THIS PORT DEAL WAS A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING"
Port Story Was Great Opportunity for Learning
The fact is, this port deal was a drive-by shooting. It was a media drive-by shooting. They came in there, and they hailed and lobbed a bunch of mortars, grenades, started firing bullets and everybody went running for cover -- and they've made a huge mess out of things, and nobody knows what happened but it's governed everybody's lives or that's been involved in this for the period of time we've been in it.
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CALLER: Well, it's just going to cause more American hatred, and also how does Bush salvage relationships with them, with Dubai -- I mean, with the UAE?
RUSH: Bush won't have any problem salvaging relationships. Bush is the one guy that tried this. Bush and Clinton. Clinton's got the big problem. Clinton's the guy that greased this and wasn't able to make it happen. Clinton is the guy.
Mark Steyn drawing lines in the sand
Jed Babbin: What happens to our friend Chuck Schumer? Does he entirely fall apart if Halliburton ends up running these ports?
Mark Steyn: (laughing) Well, I would say there aren't really many happy endings in this story for the Democrats. They saw an opportunity to bash Bush on this, because he looked vulnerable on it. Not just the Democrats, a lot of conservative commentators, Michelle Malkin and others were upset about this deal, too. But the Democrats really ran with this, and panicked enough Republicans into joining them. And the question now is who do these things go to? Do they go to Halliburton? I mean, Halliburton might as well get it, because the reality is that PNO, the British company who were running things at these ports were running them because there's no American company that does it.
Steyn then makes a great point on how political correctness interferes with national security.
JB: Well, have we not gone from tragedy to farce already? I mean, we have, for Heaven's sake, at one of the top schools in the United States, we have a former part of the Taliban government, unreconstructed, enrolled at the school. I mean, how much farther can we descend into political correctness?
MS: Well, exactly. And these are the same Ivy League colleges that refused to let ROTC on campus, because they have the don't ask, don't tell policy on gays in the military. The Taliban doesn't have a don't ask, don't tell. Even if you don't ask, they build a wall and crush you if you're homosexual. I mean, this is the complete decadence of the kind of non-judgmental, multi-cultural, everything's equal thing. And that is the way...people are very foolish, They don't realize that incrementally, you can lose your world, unless you're prepared to actually make a choice about which values, which society you want to live in.
Speaking of national security ...
THE REAL PORT-SECURITY TEST
Frankly, with astonishing vulnerabilities like these, foreign ownership really doesn't make much difference. And keeping the ports under U.S. control wouldn't afford as much protection as some in Congress seem to believe.
Those who worked so feverishly to block the Dubai ports deal have won.
Now let's see whether those same pols who were fulminating over foreign ownership - Chuck Schumer? Hillary Clinton? - show the same concern over the reality of what passes for port security.
Were the phony Democrats too clever by half?
How To Expose the Democrats
I have been waiting for some Republican to ask Chuck Schumer, "Okay, you finally found an enemy out there. You say it's the UAE, gotta protect the ports out there. If consequences are so dire, Senator Schumer, will you authorize the NSA spy program to identify potential infiltrators and terrorist attacks? Will you authorize provisions of the Patriot Act to be employed and used here in securing port security?" I guarantee you it would expose them, and it needs to happen, because the Democrats are getting away here in some places with this notion, all of a sudden they're huge defenders and supporters of national security, and on the right side of it, and actually capable of leading on it, which we know is not true.
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Posted by kitty at March 10, 2006 09:35 AM
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GREAT POST!
This port deal is PURE politics on both sides. Politically, the winner is the house republicans. The losers are Bush and the senate democrats.
Did you see that video yesterday of Harry Reid? Absolutely pricelss.
Posted by: Aaron at March 10, 2006 10:51 AM