The word "emir" gives me the creeps. Isn't that just another way of saying that this loose knit federation is controlled by facists? Personally, I don't like anything about the UAE and would not like to know that they were controlling U.S. ports. Seems to me that the U.S. should control its own ports. It kinda makes a mockery of the intense border security between Canada and the U.S.

I lives in a port city too. Anyone who lives in a port city knows that heroin arrives via our ports. Anyone who lives in a port knows that people are smuggled into a country via those containers. Anyone who lives in a port city knows that its ridiculous to have a 'war on drugs' and a 'war on terrorism' and at the same time allow our ports to be managed by another country.

I have nothing against Arabs, its the Emirs I don't trust.