Under no circumstances, however, should FCC approval be granted in isolation from the national security and congressional analysis so clearly required by the proposed TycoGlobalNetwork sale.
In the TycoGlobalNetwork case, though, too much is riding on the outcome to allow this national asset to be turned over to non-American owners without real and rigorous adult supervision.
In short, the United States cannot afford to view the proposed sale of the TycoGlobalNetwork as it has too many similar fire-sales of sensitive American-owned assets in recent years (including, notably, IBM's transfer to Communist China of its personal computer division).