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Sunday, March 12, 2006
Port insecurity
From ThinkProgress: Bill Kristol says Karl Rove and the White House asked Dubai to pull the plug on the port deal. And from the Financial Times, word that the government in Dubai now doubts President Bush is really in control of the ship of state in Washington...
Mr Bush had warned repeatedly that blocking the deal would send a dangerously discriminatory message to the world. He threatened repeatedly to veto any congressional legislation.

But with his public approval ratings at record lows and his Republican party abandoning him, one of the US’s closest allies in the Arab world concluded that he was no longer in control in Washington.

The decision by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al- Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, is likely to avert the political backlash that hit Washington last month and may prevent any further damage to diplomatic and security relations between the countries. But it underscored that Mr Bush, who still has nearly three years to go in his second term, has become perilously weak.
By the way, why is it news to the news media that port security in the U.S. sucks, and has sucked for a long, long time?

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