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> > > Fred asked: > Has anyone yet seen a story about the US personnel rescuing anybody, > treating anyone's illness, setting up a field hospital, helping people find > shelter, caring for children? I have seen such stories even about Israeli > personnel in Haiti. US? So far, none. > > There have been two major items featuring Americans here on the media. The first of these was the orphans being taken to the States. This was presented as a straight forward wonderful act of mercy a la Madonna in Africa. Quite sickening actually. The second involved US troops intervening to "protect an aid truck". And that's about it. Earlier on there was an item about a British rescue team being turned back from Port au Prince, but they did not tell us who turned them back. Australia is a truly craven country in terms of its media representations of America, so if that's the best the Aussie, Aussie, Aussies can come up with then the US "aid" effort is not achieving much in humanitarian terms. regards Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
