Nathan Newman wrote:
>As for the politics, it has clearly gotten Democras big political points.
>Now, is all distrust of foreign government control of US institutions
>automatically racist? Is may be nationalistic and a bit hawkish, but
>reducing it to racism debases the word, since foreign ownership by British
>or German companies have been attacked during times of conflict with those
>nations in the past.
-Yeah, and a British company, P&O, had been running the ports, and DPW -was taking it over. So it wasn't all about foreign ownership - it was -specifically about Arab ownership.
No, the British government did not own P&O. The UAE government owns Dubai Ports.
--- Nathan Newman