"More like Africa than America..."
Sep. 2nd, 2005 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournThe coverage of the disaster in New Orleans overseas was interesting to see. The newspapers were sympathetic, but subtlety criticized Bush policies on global warming and perhaps the connection to the intense storm season. The BBC World News used the quote above to describe the scenes of American poor black refugees wandering the city without support toting armfuls of babies.
Heartbreaking, for sure, but will Americans do any real self-analysis over this event? Given that dozens of reports on 9/11 have been published and basically no one was ever held accountable and in fact were given medals and promotions, I don't have much hope for this one either...
One note: my traveling companion pointed out that the U.S. has substantial National Guard assets: personnel, helicopters, vehicles, etc. Of course, many of them are on the other side of the world in Iraq. How do you think a National Guardsman from Louisiana is feeling right now as he is stuck in a country that never wanted us there in the first place?
Heartbreaking, for sure, but will Americans do any real self-analysis over this event? Given that dozens of reports on 9/11 have been published and basically no one was ever held accountable and in fact were given medals and promotions, I don't have much hope for this one either...
One note: my traveling companion pointed out that the U.S. has substantial National Guard assets: personnel, helicopters, vehicles, etc. Of course, many of them are on the other side of the world in Iraq. How do you think a National Guardsman from Louisiana is feeling right now as he is stuck in a country that never wanted us there in the first place?
