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I have no problem with the deal to allow Dubai Ports World to run American ports. But it always amazes me when I see blatantly false arguments in favor of positions I hold. I know I’m right without invoking fallacies to prove it, so why should anyone else? For example:

So, let me get this straight - While the entire US political-wonk class is frothing out the mouth over the sale of “port dock concessions to the United Arab Emirates” in a fashion I havent seen since the great “Flouride Wars of the 1950’s", it turns out that “Emirates Air” and its subsidiary “Emirates Sky Cargo” has Passenger and Cargo Terminal Space at JFK.

That’s John F. Kennedy INTERNATIONAL Airport, formerly known as “Idlewild”

That’s in New York City, New York State.

You read that right.
Passenger Terminal Space and Cargo Terminal Space.

New…
York…
City…

John…
F…
Kennedy…

Cargo…
Terminal…
Space…

It keeps going on like that.

Control over an entire port is not the same as having some cargo space at a port. They are very different things. They are OBVIOUSLY different things. They are so clearly different that anyone who tried to equate them would have to be a moron.

They are so clearly different that anyone who tried to respond to a moron who tried to equate them would be an even bigger–

Nevermind.