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Port Deal Endangers National Security

What possesses the leadership in Washington, DC to enable terrorism by allowing the purchase of management rights to our critical ports (including Baltimore) by a company called Dubai Ports World?
It makes no practical, common, or security sense to allow such a shortsighted deal. Are the CIA and Homeland Security blind to the ultimate scenario? A terrorist, working through this Arab front company, purchases a nondescript ship – one that will blend in with normal port vessels (as was the case with the USS Cole). One can guess the rest. Have we lost our minds?
We subdue Saddam Hussein through the front door while allowing (and enabling) terrorist vulnerability through the back door. Semantics aside — we are selling out our National Security for fast money.
Joe Hammell
Waynesboro, Pa.