America First!

From the admirably patient John Cole at Balloon Juice, who requires far more evidence than IOZ before pronouncing something Totally Fucked, there's this little number, with which I totally agree.

"Foreigners?" It was bad enough when the very same people who invented "no operational relationship" to describe the patently phony Iraq-al-Qaeda connection started harping on the Dubai World Ports deal because Emir al-Muslim once shook hands with one of the 17 jillion members of the bin Laden family. Now Hong Kong isn't good enough either? Because of what? The Yellow Menace?

Hong Kong, I note, is one of the busiest ports in the world. By container volume, it appears to be the single busiest. So one presumes that there are some folks over yonder who know a thing or two about the business.

Jesus. In its search for a candidate for '08, perhaps the Democratic party should look into the possibility that there remains some distant, living relative of Charles Lindbergh.