UAE being awarded contract to run our ports is being debated very well HERE (NRO) Particularly go to James Robbins defense of the contract. It will clarify your thinking. BTW this is just one more example of a tin eared inarticulate GWB. All the stink is his fault and nobody elses. George Bush should be a clerk to the president and anyone else should be president.

James S. Robbins:
I have to wonder if the approval of Dubai Ports World is payback for recent support by Dubai and the UAE in the war on terrorism. Some data points:

December 2004: Dubai was the first government in the region to sign on to the U.S. Container Security Initiative to screen all containers heading for the United States for security risks.

May 2005: Dubai signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to bar passage of nuclear material from passing through its ports, and install radiation-detecting equipment.

June 2005: The UAE joined the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism.

October 2005: The UAE Central Bank directed banks and financial institutions in the country to tighten their internal systems and controls in their fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. UAE banks routinely cooperate with U.N. and international law-enforcement agencies in supplying information about suspect accounts.

Robbins has much much more, read ALL of the great debate, we can all learn from it. One more time, why did I vote for this guy?