you will be afraid when POTUS (or duly designated minion) tells you to be afraid.
you will feel secure when POTUS (oddm) tells you to feel secure.
the terrorists will win when POTUS (oddm) presents a scenario in which it is rhetorically important that it seem as though terrorists will win.

but let's be a little reasonable about this ports management and the dubai based holding company: this was a rubber stamp deal for Interior that never would have come to POTUS' attention (due to a well-established line of duly designated minions) but for the apparent double standard. If it hadn't been Dubai, we'd never have heard about the foreign companies that routinely provide port services, like, for example, the British seller.

And doublestandards? Lets talk about the new-queue-ler club.

On the other hand, if we ever want this POTUS mitigated, it seems we'll have to have an incendiary and essentially jingoistically motivated issue like this that his erstwhile cronies, henchpersons and supporters can get behind. "dirty dirty arabs making our ports unsafe" seems more likely than The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which, for one brief shining moment earlier this year, seemed like it might be the issue. Nope: swarthy, unreliable untermenschen.

Nice post.

I watched Leno the night this story really broke. He attacked Bush using almost every single code word for "Arab" which would get Bush's base against him. It was chilling, and I can't imagine that Bruce Bartlett felt good at all about it.