And Now Comes The Media Hysteria

If you you read the latest headlines regarding the U.A.E. taking over U.S. ports, you would think that the U.S, is handing over total control to terrorists. I find this laughable because foreign entities have been in control of many different U.S. interests on U.S. soil for years. All of this hullabaloo actually boils down to two things: hypocrisy and political gamesmanship.

The media quickly jumps at the chance to portray the Bush Administration as bigots with a bunch of Uncle Toms for show, racists who don't care about Blacks in Louisiana, criminal wiretappers, Islamic torturers and so on. Yet the most obvious and blatant display of xenophobia and racism comes exactly from that same media.
They have jumped on the "Muslims can't be trusted bandwagon," which coincidentally is not a Republican platform.

The U.S. ports in question have, for at least the last ten years, been run by a British company. Now the U.A.E. government recently purchased that same company along with all of its existing contracts, including management of those ports. Now all of a sudden, this same foreign company shouldn't be allowed to operate our ports because the ownership changed?

We have been preached to over and over again that Iraq was not responsible for any involvement in the 9/11 attacks and that we shouldn't be there, but a country that is only guilty of having the banks that the terrorist kept their money is going to be coined unworthy of these contracts only because of thier race?

Bull! I quote "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," because if the U.A.E. has any involvement in terrorism, we will cetainly have more influence over them if we control a few of their pursestrings than if we gave them the boot! Pushing them away will only push them further into the sphere of the fundamentalist Islamics.