A prairie fire is an issue that begins at the grass roots and spreads quickly to face down those in power. Three that come to mind are in 2006 when Dubai Ports World bought P & O that happened to own ports in the the United States and led to a scare that Muslims were running American ports; when the American public backed the invasion of Iraq because Saddam Hussein was linked to the 9/11 attacks; and now we have BP.  Let’s see what happens there.

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