To the editor,

So we finally see what it takes to spark America’s outrage: the sale of one foreign company to another. Who would have thought? After five years of incompetence, illegal activities and deceit, this is what we choose to be outraged about?

Where is the outrage over the torture of prisoners? How about record deficit spending? Why no outrage about influence peddling and corruption in Iraq, corporate giveaways, funding cuts in medical spending at the Veterans Administration or the selling off of public lands for pennies.

The Dubai Ports World’s acquisition of port terminal contracts at six U.S. ports was nothing more than business as usual. Most port terminal contracts are held by foreign companies as it is. Yet this was where we chose to vent our outrage at an administration that has stood on the steps of the White House, our house, and said that the law does not apply to them.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Scot Hamlin,

Eudora