Other countries, some bidden by the president, others not, come to our aid.
We should have been able to help our own but we have weakened ourselves. We sent everything overseas. We sent kids and we sent money. The vanity of the Bushes spent so much of it in waste.
Look at who is sending us doctors, medicine, water, fuel. CUBA is sending us help. Cuba! Afghanistan, where people are starving will send money. Poor Honduras, too. Venezuela,not one of the countries that's terribly happy with us. Germany... Russia. IRAN. The Netherlands. France. Japan. Australia. Singapore. Canada. Sri Lanka. Qatar. Israel. China. Saudi Arabia. Italy.
Friends and foes.
We have had offers of aid from several other countries as well. Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Ecuador, Paraguay, Norway, New Zealand, Thailand... remember some of these countries are still recovering from their own natural disasters... tsunamis and such. The list goes on. Columbia, Belgium, Armenia, Dominica, Iceland, Guyana, El Salvador, Jamaica, Hungary, the Dominican Republic, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Portugal, Switzerland (Oh, God yes! Send Chocolate to these people!), Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan.... Forgive me if I've missed anyone.
I'm not just thinking today about the victims but about the people there to help.
I remember what local officials and workers went through and how traumatized they were. Pray for them. Give what you can.
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A freind in England made the comment "the size of the disaster is overwhelming, the area is bigger than England!" how do we cope with something like that?
Bubbles called - he said you forgot Poland.
The international outpouring is remarkable, but more remarkable is the US delay in responding to the bulk of these gracious offers of support. Castro announced yesterday that his offer had yet to be accepted or rejected; France says its own offer of support was rebuffed, same as Sweden's. Guess if you're Old Commie or Old Europe, the Bushies don't wanna know ya.
The geopolitical implications of this disaster won't be fully known for years, but you'd better believe that their machinations are having an impact even as I type these words.
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