It only took the America bashers less than a week to unite on the Haiti catastrophe and they're in high gear, may they all rot in hell.

One of the oddest things that occurs whenever there's a catastrophe anywhere in the world where the United States voluntarily steps in and provides aid and assistance is the almost instantaneous emergence of what I like to call the 'yellow tailed America bashers'. The 'basher' comes in many forms. some we expect and others are totality perplexing. It is a given that we will have to endure the rantings of the South American dictators and despots, the weasels that inhabit the temples of Asia and some of the underhanded remarks of the 'former socialists' turned capitalists but really ultranationalists from the former eastern European countries blowing off gas about how the United States government has been lax in their response and never provides enough aid to whatever the disaster is, even though the U.S. ends up in most instances providing well in excess of half of the aid given out to include cash that the governments of those recipient countries usually steal and deposit in Swiss bank accounts. They all manage to pledge aid and assistance making sure they let the world know on prime time news casts worldwide that they're going to provide the desperately needed aid and assistance and that it is on the way, like the three greatest lies--the check's in the mail, I have complete control so I don't have to wear a rubber and email me and I'll forward the third lie privately.

Then we have the born and bred in the good old USA types who are of the belief that we never do enough and that they believe in the conspiracy drenched brains that our government wants to see all of the human suffering taking place for some perverse reason. These claims usually come from some high profile or high profile has been but for some reason they never seem to have facts to back up their rhetoric. This morning Don Imus had one of these goofs on in the form of, as he calls him, the great Dick Gregory, comedian and civil rights activist or at least that's how he, Mr. Gregory, has the network bill him. He was attempting to intersperse lame comedy in a 'negro dialect' (Credit Senator Harry Reid for resurrecting that one)and at the same time taking pot shots at the government for it's apparent, only to him, mishandling of the earthquake disaster in Haiti. What people like Mr. Gregory and apparently Mr. Imus fail to understand is the fact that Haiti is a dangerous place under normal conditions and in the present state even worse. The government of Haiti is more corrupt and chaotic than the Karzai regime in Afghanistan, gangs rule the streets and the drug trade probably eclipses the total GNP of Haiti itself. The country is so fractured that UN Peace Keeping Forces have been deployed there six times since 1995 with increases in the size of the forces each time they are needed. The other fact that people like the two esteemed mentioned above have a difficulty understanding is that it takes time to mobilize relief efforts for a disaster the size a scope of the one in Haiti. To Mr. Gregory, you can bag this one Dickie your out of your league with your stupid comments. There is one bright spot for Mr. Gregory, there have been several other douche bags who have piped up since the earthquake and have also received harsh comments for their lame assessments of how and why this took place and the reasons we are providing aid, in other words, he's in good company.

What it all boils down to is this, Americans have always railed to the aid of those less fortunate themselves be it natural disasters or wars. I'm just guessing but I would say that we will continue to do this for the foreseeable future and will probably continue to be maligned as we have in the past and present.

Thanks for reading,

"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means".
Georges Bernanos
1888 - 1949
French author and soldier in World War I

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