Originally posted by fathersson:
Hell, no one seemsed to mind when the Chinese wanted to buy our oil companies last year. And no one has a problem with other countries owning our Banks or other Financial Institutions. Years ago other countries bought major real estate holdings in this country when the dollar was weak.
Just because the company is owned by them doesn't mean the workers aren't going to be Americans and or watched over by Americans. Are you saying that just because they are Arabs that they are Terrorists?
not saying that just because they are Arabs they are terrorists.
But let's face reality here:
People have a substantially different perception of the role of, say, the Chinese or Japanese with respect to their relationship with the United States than they do with the Arab countries.
Personally, I am not wild about any foreign power having interests that they own in the U.S., but I also confess to not being familiar enough with international economics to fully grasp the issues and questions involved.
But I
do know that on a gut level I think that there's a much greater possibility that the day may come when the entire Arab world is our enemy than there is that we will be enemies someday with China or Japan.
Obviously, as someone in the article says, "When you have a foreign government involved, you are injecting foreign national interests. A country that may be a friend of ours today may not be on the same side tomorrow."
This is absolutely not about the workers or their supervisors in these companies being Americans.
Clearly, the UAE company isn't going to import 5,000 Saudi Arabians or something to start running the port if the deal goes through.
They probably couldn't even if they wanted to, because of our immigration laws.
This just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Does it sound like a good one to you?
