Wow. This is really stupid.

Michelle Malkin has been taking the lead on the story involving a company owned by the government of Dubai -- as in, United Arab Emirates, as in Middle East, as in region that produced the 9/11 hijackers and is exploding with Islamofascism -- taking over six major US ports. The New York Post hammered away in an editorial:

Do the feds really want to place the ports of New York and New Jersey in the hands of a Middle East country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers? As The Post reported on Sunday, that's what's about to happen, now that Dubai Ports World has won control - for $6.8 billion - of British-owned Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.

The purchase gives Dubai Ports control of six U.S. ports - including, in addition to New York-New Jersey, Miami, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New Orleans.

True, the deal reportedly was approved by the top-secret U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which decided there was no security risk.

But at a time when security in the ports remains unacceptably lax, we wonder whether this is a wise move.

Dubai Ports, after all, is owned by the United Arab Emirates, whose banking system - considered the commercial center of the Arab world - provided most of the cash for the 9/11 hijackers. Indeed, much of the operational planning for the World Trade Center attacks took place inside the UAE.

And while the Bush folks now consider the UAE a major ally in the war against terror, the Treasury Department has been stonewalled by the emirates, and other Arab countries, in trying to track Osama bin Laden's bank accounts.

The new leader of Dubai, one of the seven small countries that make up the UAE, has said all the right things about fighting radical Islam since 9/11.

But this remains very much an Islamist nation, where preaching any religion other than Islam is prohibited.

Someone needs to say it: this idea is really, really stupid.

This is like selling management of our ports to Krupp in 1942. Has our government been asleep? I would normally say that only Rip Van Winkle or a member of the Democratic Party would think selling our ports to our Islamist enemy during this time of war is a good idea.

Except this time it's not treasonous Democrats allowing the dangerous deal, but greedy Republicans, the same one who gave away our national ability to manufacture steel in the name of "free trade." Now, we are dependent for a good part of our steel, including that needed to make ships, on China -- the same China with whom we will likely go to war over Taiwan.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Anyway, Malkin has a great roundup on the opposition building to this insanity. Just keep scrolling.