No comment about the only other companies, aside from Haliburton, that are capable of running a port operation of the size of Baltimore or New York are owned by either China or Singapore?
On 3/10/06, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which are, I understand, being looked at again starting next week. > > Of course some countries allow other countries to run ports. I never > said they didn't. What I said was that the countries you choose to > allow into your security structure in such a way need to be trusted. > Not all countries are trusted (nor should they be) by other countries. > Each set of countries has a different set of interests (constantly > changing) which control the interaction between those countries. > > Before 9/11, we did not notice that ports were a potential security > hole. We saw it as a cheap source of products. That the closer we > could lure the external companies into our bossum, the better for our > economy. > > This still may be true of the economy. We will learn in fairly short > order. But we learned (I hope) after 9/11 that we have to temper open > economic systems with some security concerns. Not everyone we want to > trade with necessarily has our security interests at heart. Since this > is a recent change in policy, and policy tends to swing in big > pendulum motions before it settles down, we are probably going to err > on the side of paranoia for a while. > > > On 3/10/06, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Point being that outher countries allow foreign owned firms to run > > port operations. Remember that this country does have several ports > > that are run by a Chinese company. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199545 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
