Political Rant

— Begin rant

Since 9/11, in every — every! — matter of national and international import, everything — everything! — that could have been done wrong was done wrong — disastrously and catastrophically — by this administration, courtesy of Richard B. Cheney and his gang of right-wing ideologues, fronted by their titular head, George W. Bush.

That's old news.

The new news is: they've done it again!, and this one defies belief.

Just last week this administration gave the go-ahead to turn over operational control of six of our major seaports not merely to a foreign company, but to a foreign company owned and controlled — lock, stock, and barrel — by a foreign country. And not any old foreign country, either, but an Arab-Islamist foreign country: the United Arab Emirates, a country that actively supported the Islamist Taliban regime in Afghanistan. That the contract is partial payback for some previous big-money deal or some other sub rosa somethingorother is a given. But Islamist Arabs in control of six of our major seaports(!)?

Is anyone home? Anyone?

Hubristic, ideology-besotted idiots!

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As you were.