Behooving Ourselves Port-wise

It looks like there will be another review of the Dubai ports deal, following a lot of panicky politics from both sides and the pundit-sphere.

The idea seemed funny to Republicans, probably because it resembled plot element from '24' on Fox (Jack Bauer cross-references the decrypted file and finds out the port management company is based in the Middle East! And it was approved by administration insiders!). Meanwhile Democrats recognized that any opportunity to seem like they possess cojones on national defense and simultaneously show love to the labor unions is a big fat double no-brainer.

I'm a few days late on this, but it seems to me that Nixguy does a public service for some on the Right by calling attention to the painfully obvious:

If you haven’t noticed, the planet has been getting a LOT smaller lately. So it would behoove us to distinguish good Muslims from bad ones. And Dubai and the UAE are some of the most USA Friendly people in the (Middle East).

It's possible, of course, that the 45-day review will turn up evidence that the ports deal was a national security threat waiting to happen, and a bullet was dodged thanks to arm-waving bloggers and congress-creatures up for re-election. But we're supposed to be equal opportunity capitalists, aren't we? Are we going to let ethnic paranoia get the best of us?