Paranoia or Xenophobia?

So American port employees are up in arms. They don't want their ports to be controlled and run by a company from Dubai. Keep the ports American is the patriotic cry. We can't take the risk of our ports being run by a foreign company. Security is paramount and besides, the Arabs may do a better job than us and show us up - and we can't have that!
Hold on - who runs the six ports in question at the moment? P&O, erstwhile known as the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company. Where is their headquarters? Britain! Now I know that what most Americans know about geography is limited by the borders with Canada and Mexico and the coasts of the Atlantic and the Pacific, but - for their information and edification - Britain is not within the confines of the United States.
Thus these ports are already run by a foreign company. Or didn't you know that? I did, and I'm not even a Yank, let alone one who works in the port of Beaumont, Texas, or the other five ports under discussion. Do you think that most employees are thick enough not to know at least some of the hierarchy of the company for which they work? These longshoremen look reasonably intelligent to me when they are paraded on CBS to make their objections. No, the real objections come from those who think they can control a British company easier than an Arab one.
Stupid prats!
The only way to make your ports secure is to have the US military own and run them. Then think of the mess you would find yourselves in.