globalization, I wish I knew how to quit you

Why did I know this before I knew this?

Now that Dubai Ports World has signaled its intention to transfer US operations to a US-owned company, I’ll give you three guesses as to which company that would be. . . and the first two guesses don’t count.

Judd at Think Progress caught AEI’s Norm Orenstein on the News Hour, and, well,

They have got a dilemma now, because there simply aren’t American companies that have the know-how and the breadth to do this. Interestingly, and perhaps ironically, what I had heard earlier in the day, as they were looking at those that have the — the kind of resources, Halliburton was a name that came up.

I knew this was coming. I’m afraid the globalization horses are so far out of the barn at this point, that you’re going to need more than a couple of faux cowboys to round ‘em up. . . not that they’d want to.