Coasties

The Coast Guard was one of the few stellar examples of competence in the wake of hurricane Katrina. This competence seems to have been the result of ignoring the instructions of the bureaucratic self-congratulators appointed by president Bush. They simply saw Americans were stranded by mother nature and abandoned by cronyism and helped them, consequences be damned.

That's what I call leadership to be proud of.

I mention this because the folks over at the Coast Guard do not like the Dubai ports deal and are saying so. Their judgment was better than Bush's in our last crisis and I'd assume cast my lot with them this time too:

Intelligence gaps limited ports deal threat assessment

Perhaps a solution to the problem is to say that only NATO members will be considered appropriate buyers of our national security infrastructure.