Re: No End to Foreign Articles About Amerca's Shame..........

"Maria" wrote:

> >"Watching It" wrote:
>> If the other countries were offering help to your loved ones,
>>while the U.S. fiddled, you would *probably* be in agreement for their
>>help.
>>I don't think that you would tell them that it's none of their business.

> That's not what I meant. I mean that if the American people are
> unhappy with the way this thing has been handled, then it is up to
> them to change it.

Indeed it is, but that's really not the point. The US gov't. never hesitates
to open its big yap to criticize any foreign entity about how it does
things, etc., when it has a perceived stake in what happens there, or just
an itch to trash some other gov't. It's the first one to put its troops in
some other country and overthrow the reigning gov't. there if it decides it
doesn't like the way that regime is running things, or if it decides its own
interests are in conflict w/ those of a foreign people, or if that foreign
power stands in the way of US unfettered access to profit and world
resources.

So I say any country on this globe has a right to condemn the Bush admin.
for its embarrassing failure to protect its own people (as well as the
infrastructures of its own cities) in the face of a natural disaster that
was easily predictable, and had been predicted in fact. The US gov't's inept
handling of this terrible tragedy is a shame and humiliation in the world
arena that will not be lived down for decades. No question the Bush admin.
has "earned" the scorn of our global neighbors.

What an utter humiliation that we are now being offered charity by
third-world countries, some of whom we have a history of treating very
hostilely, like Cuba, Venezuala and Afghanistan. Other offers have come from
India (a large-scale water purification system), Kuwait and several African
and Indonesian nations. The worst part is, we ought to accept whatever help
is offered because it's all desperately needed. But of course the Bush
admin. will have to find an excuse to reject aid from those whose interests
are in conflict, or have been in conflict w/ the US's. Really pathetic and a
total disgrace.

NS
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