From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V7 #97 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Sunday, September 4 2005 Volume 07 : Number 097 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: OV: Re: OT Katrina ["Hilary Gray" ] Re: OV: Re: OT Katrina ["Alia Husain" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:16:09 +0100 From: "Hilary Gray" Subject: Re: OV: Re: OT Katrina - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Osborne" To: ; ; Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:25 PM Subject: RE: OV: Re: OT Katrina > Have any other countries offered to lend a hand in this tragedy? I find > it odd that the US is always "right there" when these things happen in > other areas of the world (not that I always AGREE with that) and I have > not seen anything on the news at least that indicates we've been extended > a helping hand by anyone. I'm sure most countries in a position to help would be only too happy to do so, but it's usually requested at a government level. For example, the UK couldn't send troops to help with the evacuation unless the President asked, as it could technically be termed an invasion. Remember the days and weeks after 9/11 there were international search and rescue teams in New York - it does happen. A lot of the countries that the US has helped over the past few years can barely help themselves, let alone reciprocate at this stage. There hasn't been an appeal launched here yet, but I will gladly do what I can. At this stage though it seems the only thing I can usefully offer is prayer. Hilary ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 02:50:36 +0000 From: "Alia Husain" Subject: Re: OV: Re: OT Katrina In fact, many branches of the Canadian millitary are on standby waiting for a signal from America requesting for help. Speaking as a Canadian, there has been a huge outpouring of grief and concern for America here. The tragedy has dominated our thoughts and our media and has been front-page news in all newspapers since it occured, something which (no bitterness intended here, really) would certainly not be reciprocated had a traged of equal immensity struck Canada. Fundraising efforts have certainly been very strong at my university, though generally we feel here the problem is not that America lacks the resources to deal with the problem (as was overhwlemingly the case with the tsunami) but rather that it lacks the organizational skills, partially due to the fact that their government, and especially their presient, is (no offence intended here), top of the line idiots. But whatever donations come from other countries, it is important to remember that they will be made the same way as those countries (and America) donated to the tsunami effort: that is, they will not exceed an already predetermined sum dedicated to international relief efforts. And in America, this amount is a lower percentage of their GDP than in any other first-world country. So Americans shouldn't feel like they are alone. Canada at the very least has offered support: as many people have already pointed out, it is simply a matter of whether America will accept it. From: "Hilary Gray" To: Subject: Re: OV: Re: OT Katrina Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 08:16:09 +0100 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Osborne" To: ; ; Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:25 PM Subject: RE: OV: Re: OT Katrina >Have any other countries offered to lend a hand in this tragedy? I find >it odd that the US is always "right there" when these things happen in >other areas of the world (not that I always AGREE with that) and I have >not seen anything on the news at least that indicates we've been extended >a helping hand by anyone. I'm sure most countries in a position to help would be only too happy to do so, but it's usually requested at a government level. For example, the UK couldn't send troops to help with the evacuation unless the President asked, as it could technically be termed an invasion. Remember the days and weeks after 9/11 there were international search and rescue teams in New York - it does happen. A lot of the countries that the US has helped over the past few years can barely help themselves, let alone reciprocate at this stage. There hasn't been an appeal launched here yet, but I will gladly do what I can. At this stage though it seems the only thing I can usefully offer is prayer. Hilary ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V7 #97 *********************************