Re: No End to Foreign Articles About Amerca's Shame..........
- From: "James Deveruex" <yyd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 22:16:17 -0400
"EnEss" <starword@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "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
> (add sbc before global to email)
>
Yes, disgrace is the operative word. Does anyone remember that one of the
first things Condoleeza Rice did when she gleefully took her current job was
to release a list of countries and their human rights abuses. The audacity!
.
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