|
I plan to give as much as I can to help those people throughout the Indian Ocean but I do so puzzled at our government. We step up (despite what the UN's Jan Egeland says) and recognize the need for humanitarian action to the tune of $350 million. We immediately send in our resources (Lincoln battle group, Marines, USS Mercy) - stretching our exaperated military even more thinly. We act without hesitation to help people on the other side of the world. Yet we are the same people who are engaged in two futile military campaigns. We are the same people who are flailing like a child in the dark for one man, still at-large, who sucker-punched us almost four years ago.
So I give to the tsunami relief because <b>that</b> is an example of what Americans do. As I do so, however, I wonder how the same leaders who reach out to those devastated countries can be the same ones who have placed this nation in harm's way so carelessly.
|