The House Appropriations Committee has approved a measure to block Dubai Ports World from managing the stevedoring at six U.S. ports by a whopping 62-2 margin.

The naked fear this represents is impressive. House members are apparently so scared of being labelled soft-on-terror that they are refusing to wait for the 45 day review period to elapse. That's another way of saying--"don't bother me with the facts, there's a mob outside the door with tar, feathers and a rail.."

This is extremely disturbing.

Every member who voted for this should be held to account for being a sniveling weenie. The excuse that opponents had legitimate reservations and needed time to consider the scope of DPW is blown out of the water by this precipitous action. By both argument and action, this comes down to pandering to the worst angels of our nature.

Ironically, the posturing is made possible because of a tacit concession that the UAE is going to react in a responsible fashion, allowing our politicos to make asses of themselves. Perhaps the question we should be asking is not whether DPW can run the ports, but whether these pussies should be running the government.