I'm sorry that I have to say this
Let me start by saying that I usually shy away from discussing political issues in my blog. This topic, however, I felt was too important to keep quiet about.

I am extremely disappointed in our country’s politicians, but really, should I have expected less? I was very disappointed to hear that Dubai Ports World, the Dubai shipping company based out of the UAE that was set to take over management (key word there is management) of some of our ports, was in essence forced to pull out of the deal and will no longer manage operations for those ports. Instead, they will turn over all management functions to an American company. They claimed that the relationship between our two countries was too important, but I fear that the relationship between our two countries has already been damaged by this fiasco.

After all that our country has been through, I submit that we are just as bigoted as the extremist Muslims. After all, we are now punishing ALL Arabs (or at least it appears that way) for the crimes of a few. We are saying that, even though these same ports had been (gasp!) managed by another country for years, that having them managed (not operated) by a country full of Arabs just wouldn’t do. This is racial profiling of the worst kind – the very thing that we fight so hard to prevent inside our country. After all, that would give an upstanding company that, might I add, manages operations for ports ALL OVER THE WORLD, access to allow terrorists to exploit this as a “weakness” in our nation’s security. Yes, a weakness, even though day-to-day operations, and security, would still be performed by Americans

No, instead, this round goes to the terrorists. Why, you say? Oh, this is exactly what they wanted. They want Everyone to see that America doesn’t want to do business with Arabian nations. They want Everyone to see just how intolerant we are (yet we can call Muslim extremists intolerant, and that’s ok). Unfortunately, we’ve played right into their hands. I just hope that this doesn’t damage our relations with other Arab nations too much. I also hope there isn’t much international backlash because of this, but if there is, I can hardly say that we don’t deserve it

I respect your right to disagree with me (if you do). This is my opinion, and I stand by it until such time that it can be proved this isn’t what happened.
- posted by Ben Winzenz @ 9:28 AM