My two cents worth ...
I've purposely refrained from posting about Katrina, mainly because I couldn't think of anything useful to add to the commentary already out there.
But one throught this struck me this morning on this (in America), the fourth anniversary of 9-11 ... and it hasn't gone away ...
Why is it treated as more of a tragedy what happened then, than what happened in New Orleans ? The "relief" effort is a joke, and people are dying needlessly due to the ineptitude of those they trusted to take charge ...
Is it somehow worse when someone else does it to you (ie. terrorists) than it is when you do it / allow it to happen, to yourselves ?
Will we still be commemorating New Orleans in four years time ?
posted by Kassi @ 9:09 PM
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Well put. And an interesting question to finish with. I don't know if they will in the some way they do for 9/11. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they can 'take it out' on someone for 9/11...whereas with an act of nature they can't. Although the global warming 'people' would likely say it's our fault.
I think the tragedy was how damn slow the richest country in the world was to respond to their OWN peoples' plight.
Makes you wonder if they give a rats arse about the rest of the world.
I suspect we all know the answer to that eh. The world is just a resource supply for the USA. Greedy bastards. Maybe they expected the rest of the world to send help like we did for the poor buggers with the tsunami.
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