Last post of the night...
Sep. 3rd, 2005 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_pirateHopefully I'm not repeating myself here:
In a moment of delicious (and perhaps mischievous) irony, offers of foreign aid were tendered by France, Germany and several other nations. Russia offered to send two plane loads of food and other materials for the victims. Predictably, all these proposals were quickly refused by the White House. America the Beautiful and Powerful, America the Supreme Rescuer and World Leader, America the Purveyor of Global Prosperity could not accept foreign aid from others. That would be a most deflating and insulting role reversal. Were the French looking for another punch in the nose?
Besides, to have accepted foreign aid would have been to admit the truth---that the Bushite reactionaries had neither the desire nor the decency to provide for ordinary citizens, not even those in the most extreme straits. Next thing you know, people would start thinking that George W. Bush was really nothing more than a fulltime agent of Corporate America.
via Michael Parenti's ZNet Commentary
(mentioned in my previous post)
Why the hell can't we accept help from people that we've helped? Isn't that part of friendship? That you are able to both provide, and ask for help? WTF? How could Bush just wave their offers of help away? The entire world has had to watch with the rest of us, as over a hundred thousand people were left helpless and hopeless for days...
I want a nice sound-proofed room in which I can scream myself hoarse! Now I'm off to bed to toss and turn until I fall asleep and have nightmares. We all float down here.
In a moment of delicious (and perhaps mischievous) irony, offers of foreign aid were tendered by France, Germany and several other nations. Russia offered to send two plane loads of food and other materials for the victims. Predictably, all these proposals were quickly refused by the White House. America the Beautiful and Powerful, America the Supreme Rescuer and World Leader, America the Purveyor of Global Prosperity could not accept foreign aid from others. That would be a most deflating and insulting role reversal. Were the French looking for another punch in the nose?
Besides, to have accepted foreign aid would have been to admit the truth---that the Bushite reactionaries had neither the desire nor the decency to provide for ordinary citizens, not even those in the most extreme straits. Next thing you know, people would start thinking that George W. Bush was really nothing more than a fulltime agent of Corporate America.
via Michael Parenti's ZNet Commentary
(mentioned in my previous post)
Why the hell can't we accept help from people that we've helped? Isn't that part of friendship? That you are able to both provide, and ask for help? WTF? How could Bush just wave their offers of help away? The entire world has had to watch with the rest of us, as over a hundred thousand people were left helpless and hopeless for days...
I want a nice sound-proofed room in which I can scream myself hoarse! Now I'm off to bed to toss and turn until I fall asleep and have nightmares. We all float down here.
