From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 19:34:54 PST
I think part of the problem is that the nay sayers
don't really realize just how long it takes to GET
THERE!
The first supplies had to be flown in by C-130's, that
by itself would have taken days to coordinate and
effect. A C-130 isn't a fast airplane, it also needs
a place to land safely.
It will take a ship leaving San Francisco about three
weeks to get there!!
Some people don't seem to realize that. If they can't
be constructive with what they say tell them to get to
work, if they have better ideas they should get
started on them instead of criticizing the people who
are getting things done.
Joe
--- Glen Closson <glen_closson@earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm sure regardless of what the US does to help
> these poor people it will be
> considered wrong, many people (i.e. the media) and
> other countries will find
> fault with it and not a single person will say
> 'thank you.'
>
> Instead we will hear:
> 1.) "The relief didn't get here quick enough. It
> was the wrong kind at
> the wrong place."
> 2.) "The relief workers were not sensitive to my
> special needs."
> 3.) "How dare they ask me to live in a square tent?
> Don't they know
> that my people can only live in round tents? Living
> is a square tent is
> evil so they must be the devil."
> 4.) "The earthquake and tsunami were the work of the
> US/CIA/Military
> anyway as a way of suppressing us. Probably nuclear
> testing. Death to all
> Americans!"
> 5.) "The Americans brought green tarps to make
> shelters out of. We
> can't live under a green tarp. Green is the color
> of the rebels. They
> should know this. They insult us."
> 6.) "Stingy Americans! Why should we thank them?
> They have all the
> money in the world - driving their SUVs. Just look
> at their movies!
> Everyone is rich and beautiful and doesn't work."
> 7.) "The instructions on the Porta-Potty were not in
> my unique dialect
> that is spoken by only 200 of us. How insensitive!
> They are trying to
> destroy my culture and take this land for their
> own."
> 8.) "The soldier hurt me when I tried to take his
> gun away from him."
> 9.) "The soldier hurt me when I mobbed his
> helicopter/truck/van and
> tried to grab anything I could."
> 10.) "The relief was not well organized."
> 11.) [Fill in your own]
>
>
> NY Times calls U.S. aid for tsunami 'miserly'
>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/30/quake.usa.editorial.reut/index.htm
> l
>
>
> Stingy Americans? U.N. official's comment hits nerve
>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/28/stingy.americans.ap/index.html
> ...Measured another way, as a percentage of gross
> national product, the
> OECD's figures on development aid show that as of
> April, none of the world's
> richest countries donated even 1 percent of its
> gross national product.
> Norway was highest, at 0.92 percent; the United
> States was last, at 0.14
> percent.
>
> Such figures were what prompted Jan Egeland -- the
> United Nations' emergency
> relief coordinator and former head of the Norwegian
> Red Cross -- to
> challenge the giving of rich nations.
>
> "We were more generous when we were less rich, many
> of the rich countries,"
> Egeland said. "And it is beyond me, why are we so
> stingy, really.... Even
> Christmas time should remind many Western countries
> at least how rich we
> have become."
>
> Egeland told reporters Tuesday his complaint wasn't
> directed at any nation
> in particular.
> (more)
>
>
> Glen
>
>
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