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PeacePal Donating Member (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 02:03 PM
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The world sees a 'society in collapse', and our 'just anger'
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 02:11 PM by backtotheuniverse
Here's the link to Worldpress.org:

http://www.worldpress.org/Americas/2142.cfm

An excerpt:

Loss of an American Dream

MELBOURNE — The Age (Centrist), Sept. 3: “How could it happen? Six days after hurricane Katrina swept in from the Gulf of Mexico, America is waking up to a reality as frightening in its force as the storm and flooding themselves. It is that America has been humiliated by its inability to prevent, or then deal effectively with, a natural disaster in its own backyard; and, worse and more important in the long term, that the world’s richest nation has been exposed, in a most brutal way, as a society still divided by race and possessing an underclass. … Of course, the infrastructure can be repaired, dam walls renewed and new homes and businesses constructed; and the French Quarter, which attracts millions each year from around the world, can be restored. What may prove more difficult for Bush and his successors — for this will surely be a project of many years’ duration — is the rebuilding of trust and credibility in the nation’s leaders and administrators and the healing of wounds so savagely and swiftly inflicted by hurricane Katrina.

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