"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Saturday, February 25, 2006

More on the Port Flap

Pols, both sides of the aisle, jump to conclusions
Mostly just plain dumb ones.

Outside U.S., Puzzlement Over Reaction to the Dubai Port Deal - New York Times:

"Some British publications and analysts were blunt in their criticism. 'The bluster about national security conceals one of the uglier faces of U.S. protectionism — the one with the slightly racist tinge,' The Financial Times said in an editorial Tuesday.

The Economist Intelligence Unit entitled a brief on the deal 'Big vision collides with small minds.'

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