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Originally Posted by tw
It may not be racist, but it certainly is naive. No matter who owns the company - Brits or Arabs - the same many colors of faces will be employed. Do you think they will fire all the Americans and bring in Arabs?
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No, I don't think that. But I KNOW that an Arab company will hire every one of their relatives they can cram onto the payroll in the management/administrative area. That is how they live and do business over there. Do you really think Bin Laden's father had so many jobs that needed doing that he hired all 50 of his sons and their entire families? Do you think that all 10,000 relatives of the Saudi royal family really are qualified for the positions they hold and deserve the money they are paid? And a Dubai company might be forced to deal with the unions who are already in place on the docks and the Mafia reps who control them, but do you really think there will NOT be an increasing number of middle eastern faces in oversight positions? You think no changes will not take place when a different multinational company takes over? Who are you calling naive?
I put quotes around "war on terror" precisely because I do not buy that concept. I've made it very clear elsewhere what a joke I think that is, so don't be so quick to uncork the same canned rants everytime you see a chance. Tim McVey was a wake-up call, but we hardly have the woods and mountains HERE crawling with armed religious extremists. Every single time, EVERY time somebody gets blown up in Europe, it is a middle eastern male, a middle eastern woman controled by them, or the occasional marginalized loser who has gone to live and practice killing with them. We are not at war with Islam, we are at war against the nuts who claim Islamic justification. The US cheerfully ignores some of the worst abuses of Islamic doctrine in our supposed ally Saudi Arabia, and Saddam was the most secular regime in the entire middle east so Islam had nothing to do with invading Iraq either. Americans simply don't like people who want to blow us all to hell. What POTUS managed to do with that justification is something else entirely.
It's not myths and hype that cause concern about changing the mix of workers at our most vulnerable areas. We give up the one real advantage to our defense, the fact that people of that group are hardly ever present in these environments. This is the same reason exactly why we can't plant anybody inside THEIR operations overseas - we do not look like each other or fit in well in the other's neighborhoods. The people who would like to destroy us are not named Smith or Jones. There are valid reasons for being sceptical. We will have very little control of the policies inside this new company, there is going to be a veil over what they do and with whom and we are giving up the right or the ability to know.