Dubai

Perhaps making this the subject of my first post in months is akin to Bush threatening to make it his first veto, but here goes...

The Dubai deal was not a very big deal.

This is certainly not administration apologism. There are a million things I disagree with Bush about. But this wasn't one of them.

The argument that this was a security threat was always ridiculous. The firm would not be handling security at the ports. 80% of U.S. ports are held by foreign companies in the status quo. And port security in America couldn't get much worse.

Unfortunately, I think it's telling that Michael Savage was the one who first made this issue nationally prominent. Even more unfortunate is that Democrats joined him. I don't think the Dems are guilty of racism by any means (as Savage, Hannity, et al certainly are). But I do think they're guilty of political grandstanding.

At least it's all over now.