[lit-ideas] Re: from Der Spiegel
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:07:25 -0400
"The United States Government is not yet requesting international
assistance at this time."
(which is basically what Bush said yesterday)
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True, Bush ruled out overseas aid groups (such as the Canadian
search and rescue group) but the article also pointed to financial
assistance to US charitable groups.
As in the third and fourth paragraphs:
Nice words to be sure, but that was it. No pledges of aid money, no
announcements of immediate help -- although finally, two days later,
the German interior minister did manage to come out with a hesitant
offer of assistance. And let's be honest, the crisis region this
time around isn't in the Third World, but is in the United States of
America. There really isn't much of a need for German helpers --
experienced as they may be from aid missions from Kosovo to
Afghanistan -- because the American authorities are already doing as
much as can be done.
Nevertheless, German aid money delivered to American aid agencies
would surely be welcome on the other side of the Atlantic. But
apparently, people over here believe that the Americans over there
don't really need help. Strange. The same people who normally spend
their time pointing their holier-than-thou fingers at the ghettos
and slums in the US, the same ones who describe America as an
out-of-control capitalist monster, are now, when the Americans could
really use a bit of help, oddly quiet.
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