http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...383411,00.html
this article gives a hilarious glimpse behind the scenes of this tour, before the photo ops that allow powell to further the american marketing effort----which alone rationalizes expenditure on poor folk in a disaster situation--obviously it makes no sense in capitalist terms to simply provide assistance---something beneficial to the general bidness climate must also be involved.
it is particularly funny, in a twisted kinda way, reading the above statements--which rehash the american understanding of fascism as a function of economic crisis---coming from a guy who has carried...um....freight for the bush administration for 4 years, who requested that the guernica be covered up at the un before his dog and pony show before the unsc that tried to substitute snappy graphics for actual information in the bushcase for war against iraq....funny stuff indeed.
you would think with all the talk about compassion and christian values that emanates like a foul brown cloud from the administration that they would just shut the fuck up, pitch in and try to help these folks.