My imaginary conversation with a thinking conservative...
Is there any real difference between turning the ports over to a company from Dubai and turning the western wilderness lands over to multi-national timber and gas companies? Really, would we want the Russians running the US ports instead?? What if the company from Dubai were clear-cutting and strip mining our wild lands that have always been American treasures? Would a conservative think that is OK?
If I twist my tin foil hat ever so slightly I see the Chinese allowing the Waltons to keep their name on Walmart because they are smart enough to know that having a Chinese name on the store would be bad for business.
I don't want to turn our national treasures (and our ports were probably our first national treasures) over to anyone who doesn't have our national interest foremost on their agenda.
And Bush doesn't even understand why you are concerned. Face it, he's not a conservative and this is not about profiling Arabs. Every day I understand a little better how the third world feels about globalization.