There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
-- Will Rogers
Says the master political humorist. He would certainly enjoy the current state of political affairs. I still cannot believe how many gung ho anti terrorist neocons have absolutely no problem with a foreign government running key military ports. Asinine. One had the gumption to say, we shouldn't hold it against the company DP if a few bad apples passed through their country. Ok, if you feel that strongly about it, why not let them take over White House security as well? That would free up a few more Marines and Secret Service guys to go fight the civil war in Iraq. Shoot, let's let them secure all our embassies as well. That'll free up even more Marines. I mean, DP is safe, right? No reason they can't run the White House and a few embassies just because a few bad apples passed through.
Some one else compared it to the Oklahoma City bombing, like American Companies can't run the ports either, since they are tainted by Timothy McVeigh. Please. Like there isn't a difference between some nutcase driving a rental truck of bomb next to a federal building and the coordinated efforts of a bunch of foreign nationals to hijack and crash five passenger jets and crash them similtaneously into key targets.
I wish I could understand the thought processes going on here and how letting DP run the ports is a good thing. The military doesn't seem to think so, and I think we ought to listen to their opinion on this one. Otherwise, doesn't matter how many vests they wear, they have neon targets on them.
The sad thing, is I don't even think Master Rogers would find any of this funny.
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