Posted on 05/29/2006 4:51:31 PM PDT by pabianice
According to today's news, Indonesians are "angry" at the US for not responding quickly enough with enough aid to help them recover from the most recent disaster (the earthquake) in an unbroken series of disasters.
Excuse me? Angry because we have not gone once again to save their sorry butts from the results of their government's corruption, incompetence, illiteracy, and criminality? When did we become responsible for their mess of a country? Apparently I didn't get the memo.
Heard on ABC radio news this morning.
We need to start sending out emails to these ingrates all over the world: Sorry, you are on your own.
Wait, you just described half of New Orleans.
Cool. When we post, we include the source.
I think I'll ask an Indonesian first!
Yes. I actually have no reason to believe this is true. Someone provide a link to a story or I'm just going to assume this person is stirring up trouble. It is important on this site that we don't just trust people when they say they overheard someone saying that something was true.
>Why don't they turn to Mecca for help?
btdt. Didn't work last time. Or any time for that matter. And never will.
Whatever - the Mods decided to let it go. Talk among yourselves.
Maybe later I'll post some voices from my head
The government of Indonesia is rolling in oil money. Let them fix it, the ungrateful pigs.
Well that's certainly not very Christian of the Muslims, is it?
Where is the source for this..the link?
Anger at slow response...hmmm...Wonder what they've got left for no response?...Can we find out?
Gotta agree with the call for a link.
Finally, a sane response ro a non-story.
Even is some "news" outlet did report this, so what? It just like Katrina, the border, you name it. The press is there, whipping things up. And making things up.
Now, I don't doubt that there are people who have lost everything and aren't thinking too straight. A reporter could manage to get one of them to say just about anything, and voila! There's a story.
But ongoing power cuts hampered rescue work, and fresh rains as night fell spelled more misery for some 200,000 people made homeless by the disaster. Some of them expressed anger that help was not reaching them more quickly. "The government does not have any willingness to help," said Hariyantini, a housewife living in a village near the city of Yogyakarta.Seems like they're anger is with their own local version of FEMA, rather than the US
This comes close. No direct mention of the US being a slacker. Just everyone blamed.
That link reported they were mad at THEIR gummint. But, I reckon the mods let anything go - sometimes. Whatever
>Where is the source for this..the link?
No inserto uno linko by poster-o.
Not before insisting our Servicemen and Women engaged in relief efforts not be armed for their own protection.
Our Military Leadership.....Complied
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Hence my bitch on an unsourced vanity news thread.
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