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The situation is just heart

synchronicity — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:16:28 +0000

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The situation is just heart wrenching. Even gut wrenching when I think about all of the money we have spent basically harming the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan with our military while allowing contractors and so called allies to steal tons of money in addition to what we... and then there's the torture... all of this creating more and more enemies for the US. The thought that we could instead have been planning and preparing to help solve problems like these... It really has me burning with questions of how to I engage my life responsibly to reflect my values that are not reflected by my government?

What is a catastrophe? When

Richard Day — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:07:19 +0000

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What is a catastrophe?

When should we become citizens of the world?

When are we to admit that we are our brothers' keeper?

9/11/01 brought millions of dollars to individual heirs of the dead!

We just became as Americans, the focus of the 3,000 dead whilst we forgot the millions dying every single day.

I have no answers.

But we fool ourselves sometimes into thinking that we are 'helping' folks who really do not need it!

the end

Thanks for trying to keep our

Michael Wolraich — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:17:00 +0000

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Thanks for trying to keep our attention on this tragedy. It's been so overshadowed by our domestic woes lately.

I think that one discouraging element of U.S. foreign aid in the 21st century has been the recognition of our own limits. Raising money is a straightforward operation, but improving the political conditions that contribute to such tragedies is much more daunting. We've failed at it so often, that I don't think many people want to try these days. We'll pitch in a few bucks for tsunamis and earthquakes, but the idealistic enthusiasm of the mid-20th century is lost to us.