You really can’t make this stuff up!
I know I should let this one alone but it’s just too easy…let
an Arab firm run our ports!!! Since 9/11/2001 one of the continuing themes of
the national debate on the threat of terrorism has been the vulnerability of
our ports. Hundreds of thousands of pieces of containerized cargo coming into
the country annually and we aren’t even close to being able to inspect anything
other than a small fraction of them and now the President wants to let a bunch
from Dubai run the ports?
Isn’t this a bit like:
Dropping your kids off at the Michael Jackson
Daycare Center
or
The NRA naming Vice President Cheney as their new spokesperson
for gun safety or
Registering for a slot at a retirement planning conference
sponsored by Enron or
Naming Bill Clinton as a chaperone for next year’s Miss
America Pageant?
It is funny though, watching the neo-cons scrambling to try
to spin this plan that the Speaker of the House isn’t on board with and the
Secretary of Defense only found out about this past weekend, probably during a
break in NBC’s broom-to-broom coverage of
the Moroccan curling team’s “quest for the gold” in Torino.
Personal note to Michael Brown: I hear Mayor Ray Nagin is hiring a new Emergency Services Planner in New Orleans. Polish up that resume Brownie, looks like it could happen.....
If this wasn't so tragic, it would be funny indeed. I'm waiting for Rod Serling to come back from the dead and give us a monologue about being caught in the Bush Twilight Zone from which it seems there really is no escape.
Posted by: Alain Jourdier | 22 February 2006 at 10:47 AM
Vintage Brodhead. Thanks for the chuckles. U.J.
Posted by: Uncle Jack | 22 February 2006 at 11:40 AM