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Yeah, they're all terrorists, discourage people from helping, Boon.
I do not think that was what Boon meant. I think it bothers him that the US is more than willing to help, regardless of the shirt being worn, especially of someone that has killed so many Americans. To him, I believe, it represents the hypocrisy of so many people who choose to condemn the United States while accepting US aid.
Now I may be speaking out of turn for Boon, but that is also how I see it.
That being said, it does not mean the US should withdraw aid, nor does it mean the US should back away even a wit. In fact it has generally been a habit of the US in the past century, to help those who might be viewed as former enemies. This includes buttressing the Deutche mark after WWI and also the Marshall plan after WWII (lets not forget US grain sales to the Soviet Union when their five year plans continued to fail).
One sometimes wonders if such people simply choose to be provocative, much like students in the US highschools today who wear distinct clothing, whether it be swastikas or Che Guevera (Che Guevera is allowed in most schools while swastikas are not). After such a disaster it may be that the person simply could not find a change of clothing beyond what was presented. He may have already lost his entire family.
Too many unknown variables in my view.
I will be interested in seeing if, in the next year, there will be anti American demonstrations or terrorist attacks upon US aid workers. It would seem the possibility is there.
Now I may be speaking out of turn for Boon, but that is also how I see it.
That being said, it does not mean the US should withdraw aid, nor does it mean the US should back away even a wit. In fact it has generally been a habit of the US in the past century, to help those who might be viewed as former enemies. This includes buttressing the Deutche mark after WWI and also the Marshall plan after WWII (lets not forget US grain sales to the Soviet Union when their five year plans continued to fail).
One sometimes wonders if such people simply choose to be provocative, much like students in the US highschools today who wear distinct clothing, whether it be swastikas or Che Guevera (Che Guevera is allowed in most schools while swastikas are not). After such a disaster it may be that the person simply could not find a change of clothing beyond what was presented. He may have already lost his entire family.
Too many unknown variables in my view.
I will be interested in seeing if, in the next year, there will be anti American demonstrations or terrorist attacks upon US aid workers. It would seem the possibility is there.
Exactly what my point was, Blather.
You put it more succinctly than I.
You put it more succinctly than I.
KUM BA YAH … ANYONE?
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on the phone with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in Crawford, Texas, December 29, 2004.
REUTERS/Eric Draper/White House Photo/Handout
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on the phone with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in Crawford, Texas, December 29, 2004.
REUTERS/Eric Draper/White House Photo/Handout
Are you sure you got the place right? Doesn't look like the vacation spot of Crawford that the Left and other kooks here are shouting about.
Say it isn't so.
Say it isn't so.
QUOTE (John L @ Dec 30 2004, 10:20 PM)
Are you sure you got the place right? Doesn't look like the vacation spot of Crawford that the Left and other kooks here are shouting about.
Say it isn't so.
Say it isn't so.
Well, he put down his bush hog, took a shower and phoned around.
The photo op was a good opportunity to come in and get a glass of ice tea anyhow.
QUOTE (Boon Mee @ Dec 31 2004, 04:04 AM)
KUM BA YAH … ANYONE?
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on the phone with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in Crawford, Texas, December 29, 2004.
REUTERS/Eric Draper/White House Photo/Handout
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks on the phone with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in Crawford, Texas, December 29, 2004.
REUTERS/Eric Draper/White House Photo/Handout
Perhaps he was calling to complain about the T-shirt.
PING then PONGand the world turns on.
That is all!
STINGINESS UPDATE: $8.5 million raised by Amazon.com so far.
U.S. government aid is now up to $350 million.
Take that Claire Short!
U.S. government aid is now up to $350 million.
Take that Claire Short!
TAKE WHAT ?
QUOTE (lamphun @ Dec 31 2004, 09:58 PM)
TAKE WHAT ?
“Only really the UN can do that job,” she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme. “It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.”
Claire Short.
Sounds to me she's real out of touch!
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Sounds to me she's real out of touch!
Has the Franco-German socialist wanna-be-world-government secretary commented on the amount of donations? Ohh, she failed to praise the US for being the best and biggest and did not acknowledge that Bush not only can, but will do a better job than any one else.But let's wait for Blather to reformulate and make sense of your usual, pathetic drivel.
QUOTE (stroll @ Jan 1 2005, 06:42 AM)
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Sounds to me she's real out of touch!
Has the Franco-German socialist wanna-be-world-government secretary commented on the amount of donations? Ohh, she failed to praise the US for being the best and biggest and did not acknowledge that Bush not only can, but will do a better job than any one else.But let's wait for Blather to reformulate and make sense of your usual, pathetic drivel.
Mr. Stroll/Troll...the real "HUN" coming out in you now?
Blinded By Hate The Guardian's Polly Toynbee hasn't noticed the overwhelming amount of aid from the US:
"Charity begins at home" is the mean-minded dictum of the right, unwilling to spend on foreigners, unwilling to spend on those outside the family fortress at home, either. But there may be a lot of truth in the old maxim. Countries that tolerate vast wealth gaps are unlikely to concern themselves greatly about the poor even further from their door. Countries that give most - the Nordics - are the ones that have created the most socially equal societies at home first. Can America be anything but unjust in dealing with foreigners when it cares so little about the third world poverty within its own borders?
The US government has ponied up $350 million for tsunami aid, with more promised. Coca-Cola has pledged $10 million; Exxon Mobil, $5 million; Wal-Mart, $2 million; Walt Disney Co., $1 million; Pfizer Inc, thirty-five million dollars.
Amazon's Red Cross appeal is growing by $3 million per day. The total from non-government contributions has reached $158,285,000.
Read the whole thing...
"Charity begins at home" is the mean-minded dictum of the right, unwilling to spend on foreigners, unwilling to spend on those outside the family fortress at home, either. But there may be a lot of truth in the old maxim. Countries that tolerate vast wealth gaps are unlikely to concern themselves greatly about the poor even further from their door. Countries that give most - the Nordics - are the ones that have created the most socially equal societies at home first. Can America be anything but unjust in dealing with foreigners when it cares so little about the third world poverty within its own borders?
The US government has ponied up $350 million for tsunami aid, with more promised. Coca-Cola has pledged $10 million; Exxon Mobil, $5 million; Wal-Mart, $2 million; Walt Disney Co., $1 million; Pfizer Inc, thirty-five million dollars.
Amazon's Red Cross appeal is growing by $3 million per day. The total from non-government contributions has reached $158,285,000.
Read the whole thing...
The Christian Right's Compassion Deficit:
More than 100,000 are dead in south Asia but it's business as usual at the websites of America's Christian right organizations.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18309
More than 100,000 are dead in south Asia but it's business as usual at the websites of America's Christian right organizations.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18309
QUOTE (Boon Mee @ Jan 1 2005, 06:22 PM)
QUOTE (stroll @ Jan 1 2005, 06:42 AM)
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Sounds to me she's real out of touch!
But let's wait for Blather to reformulate and make sense of your usual, pathetic drivel. Mr. Stroll/Troll...the real "HUN" coming out in you now?
I can see the stumpy little fellow deep down in his hole, moaning, pounding his chest and shaking the bars that cover the entrance way with Wagner blasting away in the back ground.
QUOTE (Georgie-Porgie @ Jan 2 2005, 12:00 PM)
I can see the stumpy little fellow deep down in his hole, moaning, pounding his chest and shaking the bars that cover the entrance way with Wagner blasting away in the back ground.
You need to lay off the drugs, dude!
QUOTE (Renton @ Jan 2 2005, 04:34 PM)
QUOTE (Georgie-Porgie @ Jan 2 2005, 12:00 PM)
I can see the stumpy little fellow deep down in his hole, moaning, pounding his chest and shaking the bars that cover the entrance way with Wagner blasting away in the back ground.
You need to lay off the drugs, dude!
No, he would sounds worse without the drugs. You don't know what kind of lunatics we are dealing with here
QUOTE (BoonMee)
Blinded By Hate The Guardian's Polly Toynbee hasn't noticed the overwhelming amount of aid from the US:
You are quite right, Toynbees missed the mark and used the Tsunami disaster in an unfair way for her argument. I fail to see why she should apologise to Bush though, as Tim Blair suggests. She didn't even mention him in the article. Or have the leader and the people merged into one already, so that the mention of 'America' will prompt a call for a flood of protest e-mails demanding apologies to The Leader? Toynbees pointed at a number of issues concerning British politics, and she summed up a major concern in world politics in a compelling image:
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Social democracy and global cooperation are struggling under the tsunami of US neoconservatism.
QUOTE (Boon Mee @ Jan 1 2005, 06:31 AM)
QUOTE (lamphun @ Dec 31 2004, 09:58 PM)
TAKE WHAT ?
“Only really the UN can do that job,” she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme. “It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.”
Claire Short.
Sounds to me she's real out of touch!
More UNreality . . . But the Dutch Get It
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in fact, we've found that to avoid running into the UN, we must go out to where the quake and tsunami actually hit. As we come up on two weeks since the disaster struck, the UN is still not to be seen where it counts -- except when holding well-staged press events. Ah, yes, but the luxury hotels are full of UN assessment teams and visiting big shots from New York, Geneva, and Vienna. The city sees a steady procession of UN Mercedes sedans and top-of-the-line SUV's -- a fully decked out Toyota Landcruiser is the UN vehicle of choice; it doesn't seem that concerns about "global warming" and preserving your tax dollars run too deep among the UNocrats.
Sitting VERY late for two consecutive nights in interminable meetings with UN reps, hearing them go on about "taking the lead coordination role," pledges, and the impending arrival of this or that UN big shot or assessment/coordination team, for the millionth time I realized that if not for Australia and America almost nobody in the tsunami-affected areas would have survived more than a few days. If we had waited for the UNocrats to get their act coordinated, the already massive death toll would have become astronomical. But, fortunately, thanks to "retrograde racist war-mongers " such as John Howard and George W. Bush, as we sat in air conditioned meeting rooms with these UNocrats, young Australians and Americans were at that moment "coordinating" without the UN and saving the lives of tens-of-thousands of people.
Sitting VERY late for two consecutive nights in interminable meetings with UN reps, hearing them go on about "taking the lead coordination role," pledges, and the impending arrival of this or that UN big shot or assessment/coordination team, for the millionth time I realized that if not for Australia and America almost nobody in the tsunami-affected areas would have survived more than a few days. If we had waited for the UNocrats to get their act coordinated, the already massive death toll would have become astronomical. But, fortunately, thanks to "retrograde racist war-mongers " such as John Howard and George W. Bush, as we sat in air conditioned meeting rooms with these UNocrats, young Australians and Americans were at that moment "coordinating" without the UN and saving the lives of tens-of-thousands of people.
It seems that the UN is the place you want to be to see the world and NOT get your hands dirty. Club Med in the middle of a disaster zone. Sick.
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