Port security.
Port Security: 3-16-06:
President Bush’s Administration policy regarding the potential Dubai management of half a dozen US ports was handled poorly, but it was the correct policy.
Our only means of improving our security and increasing our chance of catching those who want to do us harm before they to it…is to have more friends in the Arab/Muslim world…not fewer. Our alliance with Dubai is within that context.
With or without foreigners managing our ports these hyper entryways into our nation are critical to both health of our economy and our national security. They are also extremely vulnerable with even the most stringent US security measures possible. The most important aspect of this issue is that nearly 4 years after 9-11…they are not much more secure than they were before.
Bush was right on the Dubai Port management…but even a broken clock is right twice a day. The Bush Administration is a dismal failure in improving our nations port security regardless of who manages them.
Just one oil tanker loaded with a Oklahoma type explosive (a fuel oil and fertilizer type mixture) could yield a near nuclear level explosion. As we saw with the Port of New Orleans after Katrina even the loss of one US port has a lasting national and even global economic consequence.
President Bush’s Administration policy regarding the potential Dubai management of half a dozen US ports was handled poorly, but it was the correct policy.
Our only means of improving our security and increasing our chance of catching those who want to do us harm before they to it…is to have more friends in the Arab/Muslim world…not fewer. Our alliance with Dubai is within that context.
With or without foreigners managing our ports these hyper entryways into our nation are critical to both health of our economy and our national security. They are also extremely vulnerable with even the most stringent US security measures possible. The most important aspect of this issue is that nearly 4 years after 9-11…they are not much more secure than they were before.
Bush was right on the Dubai Port management…but even a broken clock is right twice a day. The Bush Administration is a dismal failure in improving our nations port security regardless of who manages them.
Just one oil tanker loaded with a Oklahoma type explosive (a fuel oil and fertilizer type mixture) could yield a near nuclear level explosion. As we saw with the Port of New Orleans after Katrina even the loss of one US port has a lasting national and even global economic consequence.
posted by Chuck Woolery at 4:19 PM
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