Thursday, December 30, 2004

American Sight

If this year is remembered for anything beyond the elction that wasn't, it'll be that two serious tragedies hit the world and the U.S. govt's response was rotten. Sudan, which happened right around the anniversary of Rwanda, got barely a raised eyebrow - right after all the hullabaloo about fighting terror and protecting human rights that got us in the Imperial debacle in Iraq. And now the U.S. ups their initial 15 million dollar pledge to the victims of the Tsunami in Asia to thirty five million after getting called out for being stingy. Thirty five million dollars is still short of the forty million they're planning spending on the inauguration. I was reading about one of the morning shows talking about all the children who had been killed (one third of the total, which as I write this is between sixty and a hundred fifteen thousand). All four children they showed on the show were white kids.

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