One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.
While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.
Risk more than others think safe.
Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.
Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government.