December 12, 2006

A USEFUL FICTION:

Dubai company to sell its U.S. port operations (DEVLIN BARRETT, 12/12/06, The Associated Press)

Dubai Ports World, the company whose planned takeover of major U.S. port operations ignited a political firestorm earlier this year, has agreed to sell those operations to AIG Global Investment Group.

There is no meaningful sense in which AIG is an "American" company, but it'll assuage the wahoos.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 12, 2006 12:00 AM
Comments

As you continuously point out about democracies, they must react to the will of the people.

If the Corporations, blacks, ding-bat soccer moms, and Hispanic groups get "assuaged," why not the "wahoos?"

Posted by: Bruno at December 12, 2006 10:53 AM

Exactly. And then AGI just farms out security anyway.

Posted by: oj at December 12, 2006 10:58 AM

What a stupid, stupid spectacle this was.

Posted by: Matt Murphy at December 12, 2006 2:06 PM

Stupid and potentially deadly.

Posted by: erp at December 12, 2006 2:41 PM
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