Burma holding up foreign aid, just like the U.S. did
May 22, 2008 at 3:55 pm by Andisheh Nouraee in Don't Panic
This week’s Don’t Panic explains why Cyclone Nargis has killed and will continue to kill so many Burmese.
I compare Nargis to Hurricane Katrina in the story, sticking to the geographic and meteorological similarities.
Yesterday New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Lolis Eric Elie noted the similarity between the Burmese junta’s reaction to Nargis and the Bush Administration’s reaction to Katrina:
A snippet:
Of course our federal government neither offered nor accepted much relief for victims of the federal levee failures.
As the journal “Foreign Policy” put it, “When France and dozens of other countries pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and supplies to the relief effort, their donations should have helped ease the crisis. Instead, one year after Katrina battered the Gulf Coast, none of the money given to the federal government has made its way to evacuees.”
Read the whole column if you have two minutes.
(photo illustration by me and NASA. mostly NASA)
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