What has America become? (From Greece)

[icymist]

What has America become?

OVER the coming weeks, America will face some deeply uncomfortable questions in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. How can the richest, most powerful country on earth have failed so desperately in its handling of a major natural disaster – and one for which there was so much advance warning?

How is it that the country able to mobilise a monumental logistic effort to invade an enemy half way across the world finds itself so shockingly disorganised in its own back yard? How is that a country able to send relief to tsunami victims in Indonesia within two days took six days to begin a serious relief effort on its southern coastline?

But perhaps most disturbing of them all is an issue that raises questions not only of the state’s preparedness but one of its very social fabric. How is that in the face of such a disaster, society in New Orleans degenerated so fast into one of utter dog-eat-dog anarchy?

The world has watched stunned as its leading power degenerated into Third World chaos this week. There have been reports of drug addicts breaking in to gun shops and roaming the submerged streets of New Orleans in a desperate search for their fix; there have been murders and widespread looting; at the Superdome, where 20,000 refugees are waiting to be evacuated, there were two reports of rape, one involving a child, while police at the convention centre said there had been similar reported incidents; there is shooting over food and water, with the weakest and the eldest left to die; there are bodies stashed to one side of the stadium where the refugees are waiting for help in fast degenerating sanitary conditions.


http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/

[Erika]

1. The GOP does not recognize the poor...period

They think of them as lazy scum. They don't wish to study and find out that these people may have worked two jobs to keep their families going. Damn the GOP.

These people in NO were predominantly Black and voted 77% for Kerry. W hung them out to dry.

[Skittles]

2. did the link change?

???

[icymist]

5. Yeah, It looks like the paper changed the story.

I'll be weary of this source in the future. ~sigh~

[CTyankee]

3. Great! My RW co-worker is in Greece right now

Hope she's gettin' it like crazy just now from the Greek people! I can't wait til she gets back. It'll be great to look at her bitch slapped face!

[JaneGat]

4. What a snapshot of life in these United States.

There is no greater cause than that of humanity. The world view of the U.S. has been forever shaken, and so has the faith of America's citizens in their own country. It is beyond shame.