Posted on 09/11/2005 10:59:50 AM PDT by nj26
Rarely in U.N. history has the United States, the organization's chief sponsor and host, looked as awkward or vulnerable to foreign eyes as it does now.
With 170 world leaders meeting in New York this week, the Bush administration is scrambling to save lives and restore its can-do image. Hurricane Katrina has produced scenes of devastation and deprivation shocking to the rich and powerful U.S. but all too familiar elsewhere.
Televised images of fetid floodwaters in New Orleans and grim-faced U.S. officials, from President Bush on down, are greeting heads of states arriving for the U.N. General Assembly.
Bush plans a speech Wednesday, making the case for U.S.-backed initiatives that are already proving a hard sell.
Staggered by Katrina, the U.S. also faces international opposition to the war it is leading in Iraq. There is resentment, too, that Bush has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming or embrace British Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposal that rich nations donate foreign aid equal to 0.7 percent of their national income. The U.S. percentage is 0.16 percent, the lowest of leading industrialized nations.
Washington still has more money, military muscle and political say-so than anyone else. Yet Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are coming to New York dogged by the perception of disarray and government bumbling that gives other nations a rare glimpse of a superpower on its heels.
International offers of money, equipment and other aid have flowed since the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast two weeks ago. While grateful, the administration knows that accepting the help can feed the perception of weakness.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
... and the New York Times is absolutely giddy over the prospective propaganda.
Too bad their Dim compatriots down in Louisiana are unravelling the approved storyline before the venerable NYT can gain traction with anything they write, LOL.
What a bunch of horse poop. This completely ignores the in-kind contribution the U.S. military makes by being the world's policeman and disaster-relief agency. Not to mention the vast sums contributed privately by U.S. businesses and residents.
"There is resentment, too, that Bush has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming"
Kyoto is a hoax and is dead. Bush brokered a REAL deal with India and China that actually adresses the issue instead of merely redistributing wealth via energy consumption. No mention of that from AP. Idiots.
"embrace British Prime Minister Tony Blair's proposal that rich nations donate foreign aid equal to 0.7 percent of their national income. The U.S. percentage is 0.16 percent, the lowest of leading industrialized nations. "
Context? Private donations from Americans far outwiegh the 0.7 they would have governments donate. Again, AP is lazy & sloppy.
You gotta wonder....Send Dan Rather and "60 Minutes" to investigate and bring back the truth!/sarcasm off
Transcribes DNC talking points.
Makes you wonder if the AP actually writes these stories or if they just transcribe DNC talking points..
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One in the same.
I remember back to the first week in September of 2001. It was my second trip ever to New York.
All over the media were reports of the UN gathering and trying to pass a resolution condemning the US for having slaves centuries ago. They were also trying to condemn Israel for human rights abuses.
Mad man Mo's cronies had a fertile environment in which to brew their hate of Jews and America.
Stores might as well stick it up there at the checkout stands.
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Yes, it has already achieved TABLOID status.
as is cBS, nBS, aBS, and pBS and Hollyweird(generally) been doing also..
The game is afoote.. but not really a game, its more like serious propaganda.. as the sheeple graze and mull over the PO' people of N'awlins and other the flocking people in the area..
The only ones that I see in disarray are the left wing media and the demonrats.
Maybe the foreigners need to read the Volker oil for food report.
A better title would be ....
Katrina Exposes Louisiana State Government and New Orleans City Governemnt In Disarray
>>>>"There is resentment, too, that Bush has refused to sign the Kyoto treaty on global warming"
Oh how quickly some forget. The US Senate voted the Kyoto Treaty down, 95-0.
>>>>On June 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was to be negotiated, the U.S. Senate passed by a 95-0 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98), which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States".
always be wary when they report in percentages. For instance, Norway controls 68% of it's GDP, Western Europe between a low 59% and 75%. The USA only 16%, the rest is private.
If they want to continue this charade use total numbers and then see where the US is. However, they won't. I read the foreign press (German) regularly. You would be amazed to see their ant-american bias.
Pump up the volume!
Pump up the volume!
WAIL!
WAIL!
SQUERAL!
SQUEAL!...
You would think that the MSM would have at least run one mea culpa on their own failures as evidenced by a lack of articles and warnings prior to Katrina.
I searched Yahoo! News (and Google News, but it was useless since the date bracketing seemed to be broken), and it is very depressing how little coverage Katrina received on Friday or Saturday. Yet these very same newshounds are eager to repeat DNC talking points in a disgusting display of backbiting "journalism".
Yes! How fun it is to remind them that it was under Bubba Administration this happened. They never seem to know this.
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