A senior executive of Dubai Ports World in charge of its European and Latin American port operations, David Sanborn, was named by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration. The agency advocates for the U.S. maritime industry under the Department of Transportation. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-02-21-united-arab-emirates_x.htm)
Rank cronyism or bringing everything in-house, only time will tell. The proof of that pudding will be to see how many sweetheart deals DPW gets with Sanborn in charge, or lack thereof.
I think what astonishes me most is that an administration that's spent the past five years training people to suspect anyone wearing a kaffiyeh is so shocked when they want to drop the contract in the lap of a country that even indirectly was the home and financial base for so may terrorist operations. NO, I'm not saying the UAE directly funded terrorists, thus the use of the word "indirect". It just astonishes me they didn't see this backlash coming after the past five years.
(Damn, I love a good political dustup - gets the blood going.)
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Date: 2006-02-22 11:23 pm (UTC)A senior executive of Dubai Ports World in charge of its European and Latin American port operations, David Sanborn, was named by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration. The agency advocates for the U.S. maritime industry under the Department of Transportation. (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-02-21-united-arab-emirates_x.htm)
Rank cronyism or bringing everything in-house, only time will tell. The proof of that pudding will be to see how many sweetheart deals DPW gets with Sanborn in charge, or lack thereof.
I think what astonishes me most is that an administration that's spent the past five years training people to suspect anyone wearing a kaffiyeh is so shocked when they want to drop the contract in the lap of a country that even indirectly was the home and financial base for so may terrorist operations. NO, I'm not saying the UAE directly funded terrorists, thus the use of the word "indirect". It just astonishes me they didn't see this backlash coming after the past five years.
(Damn, I love a good political dustup - gets the blood going.)