Reply #23: I did read the article [View All]

[TxRider]

And it very poorly written and factually incorrect.

You don't even have to get past the first few paragraphs.

"The Cubans, at least, would show up quickly. It wasn't until Friday, three days after the quake, that the "supercarrier" USS Carl Vinson, arrived—and promptly ran out of supplies. "We have communications, we have some command and control, but we don't have much relief supplies to offer," admitted Rear Adm. Ted Branch. So what were they doing there?"

First, the Cubans had 450 people there running a mobile hospital before the quake, and rode it out, and started working again immediately afterward. They didn't need to show up quickly as they were already there.

Second the USS Carl Vinson, after running out of supplies, immediately sent helicopters, including the extra ones it picked up on it's way, to Guantanamo Bay to pick up more supplies there and ferry them back as U.S. military planes landed them at Guantanamo. The same Guantanamo the author said is only 200 miles away and doing nothing in the previous paragraph.

The rest of the article is similarly as incorrect, and simply builds to the authors final conclusion, that the U.S. response has been cruel and racist.