The NYT harkens back to the 9/11 Commission's Report Card as the commission members say this battle over the Dubai ports is just so much smoke up our asses. Well, Tom Kean actually said:
“We’re not really debating whether the ports are secure,” said Thomas H. Kean, the group’s chairman. “We’re debating who should be running them. It’s the wrong question.”
But that sure sounds like a smoke screen for the unmentionables to me. And that report card? Well, they got an A-minus for disrupting terrorist finances. But that's looking a lot like my slow cousin's Freshman year gym grade, since most of the rest of the report card lists Ds and Fs--for things like, oh I don't know, port security, border security, and cargo screening.
So, will the Dubai deal make us worse? Well, as my cousin used to say, you can't do much worse than F.
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