Damn straight.

Headline from a DNC email..

Dean: America's Security Should Be America's Business

That's really the bottom line on the whole port question, isn't it? It seems like the folks I hear talking across the bar, on either side of the political fence, seem to agree - it's not just that we're outsourcing port management and security to a state-owned enterprise from the United Arab Emiriates, it's that there just don't seem to be any American players in the game at all.

What's up with that?

Maybe the hope that the United States would be the universally acknowledged international leader in port management reflects excessive nationalism, but is it too much to suggest that there must be someone in this country capable of learning the trade?

I don't want control of our ports outsourced to any country for essentially the same reasons I don't want mercenary troops imported from any country to patrol the Canadian border.

It's our business.

And I think that's a case that can move voters.

Sic 'em, Howard!