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Article: Political posturing & the ports flap.(Dubai Ports World's acquision takes political turn)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- April 3, 2006
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Both sides in our nation's latest exercise in political posturing succeeded. Democrats who were anxious to make Republicans look bad and Republicans who increasingly find a need to distance themselves from a president with plummeting poll numbers jumped aboard the Dubai ports controversy and now claim victory. Only about a month after the announcement that Dubai Ports World (DPW)--a firm controlled by one of the governments that make up what is known as the United Arab Emirates (UAE)--would purchase the fights to manage operations at six major U.S. ports, the firm backed out of the deal. Much of the objection about DPW's management of the ports stemmed from the UAE's past ...