Separating the Sheep from the Goats
I'm sorely disappointed that the Dubai Port issue is apparently more complex than I'd originally thought. I say more complex because I see Cal Thomas says so and and I respect him. Michelle Malkin, more predictably, is also against the UAE taking control.
To me it's a slam-dunk, for reasons multitudinous but mostly related to the fact that the UAE wouldn't have operational control and angering an Arab ally in an age of Arab terrorism is transparently ignorant.
But the main reason I care is because it seemed about as good as an issue gets in flushing out the odious scent of politicians being nakedly political from those who, at least on this issue, want to do the right thing by showing a wholesome and admirable lack of ambition. Finally, I thought, a test for rascals as easy as the testing the Ph of a water sample. ("You'll know them by their limp," an Irish joke that perhaps only Ham o' Bone will get.)
The ports embroglio is one of those rare public issues that is lopsided both in terms of merit and in popularity - i.e. public opinion is almost uniformly against the UAE even though the merits are (or were to me, pre-Thomas & Malkin) glaringly obvious in favor of the UAE. In other words, the spectacular feature of this is that it is of zero cost to the politician while being of some cost to the country. This seemed a perfect storm, the issue to scent out those who care more for themselves than the country. I'm so disappointed that my PRD (Perfect Rascal Detector) has failed.
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