Wednesday, January 20, 2010

"No, Mister! You Cannot Share My Pain!"

A must-read column in the Jamaica Observer, by John Maxwell.

And how utterly repugnant to see the two countries, the USA and France, that are responsible for Haiti's plight, squabble now about the relief efforts.

3 comments:

km said...

To be fair, it's the French who seem to have a problem with US's relief work.

Rahul Siddharthan said...

Yes, this sort of thing isn't flattering to the French. Sarkozy apparently realises that -- he's playing down the row. But this proprietorial attitude that the French have over French-speaking regions is particularly misplaced in the case of Haiti...

Rahul Siddharthan said...

Yes, this sort of thing isn't flattering to the French. Sarkozy apparently realises that -- he's playing down the row. But this proprietorial attitude that the French have over French-speaking regions is particularly misplaced in the case of Haiti...