Politics make my head hurt

[ridicully]

Can someone explain to me, how, with all those offers of help:

"U.N. assistance was first offered to Washington on Wednesday by Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, who led the global aid effort after December's Indian Ocean tsunami."
"The United Nations along with more than 20 countries, ranging from allies Germany and Japan to poor Honduras, have offered help to Washington."

And Canada all but jumping up an down shouting "DART!" "MAKES WATER!!"

Oil seems to be the only thing asked for/accepted?

I know the high gas prices (and part of me really wants to mention that the prices in Leipzig, which are generally relatively low, just reached 1.40€/l at the cheapest place I could find. That's 7.95 USD/gallon) are a problem, but is it really the *only* one?

ETA 03.09.05, since this is now a place I collect links: But why should the fate of offers of help from foreign countries be better than the Red Cross's?

Comments

[shiun.livejournal.com]

Oh Gott, genau. Darüber habe ich mir schon die ganze Zeit den Kopf zerbrochen. Und irgendetwas wiederstrebt mir auch, einen Spendenaufruf für eines der reichsten Länder der Welt nachzugehen, die Milliarden Dollar ins Militär steckt und nicht in der Lage ist, eine Katastrophensituation, vor der sie gewarnt war! - unter Kontrolle zu bringen. Mein Gott. Die offensichtlich nicht mal Hilfe aus dem Ausland annehmen will!

Versteh mich nicht falsch, die Menschen tun mir so furchtbar leid. Ich kann keinen Artikel darüber lesen, oder einen Bericht sehen ohne in Tränen auszubrechen.

Aber...ich weiß nicht. Ehrlich nicht.

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Und deine Icon macht mich total wahnsinnig, weil ich sowieso links nicht von rechts unterscheiden kann. Uff.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

It just makes you want to hit your head off a brick wall. They need help. Goodness only knows that people are dying, but all they care about is their sodding fuel :(