It is a global economy. If the United States expects to be able to invest in countries the world over and pursue economic opportunity abroad, we can only expect the same in reverse.

DP World is an extremely successful, prosperous, company that runs port operations all over the globe - Australia, Europe, Hong Kong, South Korea, Latin America, the Middle East. It is a prime example of the complete and total antithesis of what Islamic fundamentalists like. It's a capitalist company driven by the desire to make more money by dealing with and incorporating with the West. If anything, DP World is the kind of thing Islamic terrorists target, not employ.

Just because a company is based in the UAE doesn't mean it's some primitive tribal clan of America-haters at the helm of it, as some would like to believe. Many of DP World's top executives are British, American, Canadian and Australian. It's a global company with a global presence and a global executive board and global employee make up, which happens to be based in the UAE. The company's Chief Operations Officer is a Westerner, in fact.

I think it rather unsettling that just because a company is identified as being based in the Middle East, its history of achievements and accomplishments and successes are totally ignored and the only detail people choose to pay attention to is that it's a Middle Eastern company. That reeks of racism, and these politicians shameless, ignorantly raising a fuss while ignoring everything but the fact that DP World is based in the UAE are so prime an example of shiftless opportunists wanting nothing more than to feed upon unfounded fears to score votes, be they Dem or Rep.