I just read an article on Yahoo! about how the world is shocked by the New Orleaneans reaction to Hurricane Katrina. People in Asia and the Middle East are saying they expected them to react that way, like Americans are savage at heart. What a crock!
"Anarchy in the USA" declared Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun.
"Apocalypse Now" headlined Germany's Handelsblatt daily.
Those are some of the headlines in their papers! I don't remember hearing a bad word out of us when London was hit by bombs. We didn't go around saying crap like that!
And I love this: "I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Really? Did all of them want to help? I don't think so.
I don't know who said this, but it's really low: "Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is." Whoever you are....you bastard. Don't cry when the US decides to pull all foreign aid from whatever country you live in. We don't want to hear it.
"Many newspapers highlighted criticism of local and state authorities and of President Bush. Some compared the sputtering relief effort with the massive amounts of money and resources poured into the war in Iraq." Hmmmm....maybe we should just let everyone fend for themselves. Screw all the other countries in the world, we'll keep our money.
And this was fabulous: A female employee at a multinational firm in South Korea said it may have been no accident the U.S. was hit. "Maybe it was punishment for what it did to Iraq, which has a man-made disaster, not a natural disaster," said the woman, who did not want to be named as she has an American manager. Well, that's too bad. If it were me, she'd be fired on the spot. Maybe that's just the bitch coming out in me.
Has any other country sent money? Or supplies? Or food? Don't think so....
But we rushed in when that tsunami hit, didn't we? Just like the stupid, over generous people we are. Maybe we're just hitting our heads against the wall over and over and over and over and over....
Friday, September 02, 2005
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