How to Make Enemies and Destroy Cities
Posted by saifedean on June 22, 2007
American taxpayer money at work in Jenin (left) and American taxpayer money not at work in New Orleans (right)
On my news feed, a few days ago, next to each other were two items that demonstrate two incredible, and not all too unrelated, phenomena that tell you a lot about America today.
New Orleans Pursues Foreign Aid
Washington to Increase Military Aid to Israel
As New Orleans struggles to rebuild itself, and the Federal money that was supposed to fund this rebuilding is trickling far slower than it was promised, President Bush announced an increase in the aid package to Israel and secured it for the next ten years.
The Big Easy, one of America’s most beautiful and diverse cities, languishes in debris two years after it was devastated by hurricane Katrina, the incompetence of the Army Corps of Engineers who never bothered to check the levies, and the criminal negligence of the Bush Administration and their countless cronies at all levels of government.
Only half of the promised $320million in Federal aid for infrastructure has arrived to New Orleans, leaving its mayor desperate enough to pick up the phone and call back all the world leaders who had made pledges for aid, including Saudi Arabia and Cuba.
On the other hand, the criminal government of Israel, which has murdered thousands of children over the last few years is given $2.4billion (rising to $2.9b) in military aid. This is the money that will go to fund tanks, aircrafts, machine guns that will eventually bomb Palestinian and Lebanese children. With each of these dollars, America is engendering the enmity of millions of Arabs who watch these weapons in action every day.
What was most fascinating was this snippet:
The prime minister asked U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for his assistance in expediting the handling of a number of IDF procurement requests meant to complete the replenishment of equipment and stores used during the Second Lebanon War.
Gates pointed out that though there is no problem with the requests in principle, there is an orderly procedure. However, Bush intervened and directed the defense secretary to expedite approval of the IDF’s requests.
It must be reassuring for the millions of Americans who saw their President do nothing as New Orleans drowned that he “intervened” to “expedite” the IDF request. President Bush will go to any lengths to make sure that bureaucracy and “orderly procedures” do not get in the way of Israel’s bombing of children. As for the children drowning in New Orleans, he can trust Michael Brown to take care of them.
So in one case, the American government is not spending enough money to rebuild one of the country’s most beautiful cities, leaving thousands homeless; while in the other case, the government is spending money on weapons to destroy Arab cities, murder Arab children and win more enemies.
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June 29, 2007 at 12:49 am
Good stuff Saif. Nice contrast eh?
June 29, 2007 at 4:59 am
Whatever the rights and wrongs of Palestine and Israel, it has nothing to do with New Orleans. New Orleans’ problems have more to do with it having been a subsidiary of the Democratic Party for the past half-century, than with George Bush’s government. And please, some perespective: “criminal negligence”? Come off it.
June 29, 2007 at 7:01 am
wow, how do I fit in?
sincerely sofia, also an zionist
http://sofiawinterborn.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/sofiai-am-madly-in-love-whit-my-feet/
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