America Needs the Whole Story

This is the view of the chairman of the JCS, as he comments on the recent Dubia Ports debacle:

Speaking at the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs, Marine Gen. Peter Pace cited the firestorm of criticism that descended on the decision to allow a company from the United Arab Emirates to take over operations at six American ports. The company, based in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, has since given up that idea...

Pace said the dialogue in regard to the port decision was not complete. The citizens of the United States never "got to absorb the fact that the security of (the ports) is, has been and will always be the responsibility of the U.S. Coast Guard," he said.

He's says that we should first consider what we hear in the news before rushing to judgement:

"My point is that somehow before we all rush to a judgment either for or against, we ought to allow ourselves as a nation to have an open dialogue take the time necessary to inform ourselves, and then make a decision about which we can be proud."