[Ichneumon]

Do you want to know what the definition of ungrateful is? It is being clearly spelled out for us in the world's response – or rather, its lack of response – to the carnage wrought by Hurricane Katrina earlier this week.

Ahem:

Australia donates $10m

UN offers to help overwhelmed US cope with Katrina

Excerpt from that first story:

Australia joins more than 20 countries - even poor Honduras - in offering help. Australia joins more than 20 countries - even poor Honduras - in offering help. [...] The State Department said offers so far had come from Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Australia, Jamaica, Honduras, Greece, Venezuela, the Organisation of American States, NATO, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, South Korea, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

It's stories this that make me understand why some folks call WND, "WingNut Daily"...

[ChristianDefender]

It's stories this that make me understand why some folks call WND, "WingNut Daily"...

:-)... sometimes they do get that way, but in some ways i find them informative as well...

But there are parts of this article that is also right... I think America from this time on should focus first on the welfare of its citizens to the utmost level before focusing itself on foreign concerns.

[Always Right]

While 10 mil is a nice token from Aussies, in reality we are going to need 10,000 times that by the time this is over.

[Dustbunny]

It is during a tragedy such as this when you discover who your friends are.

[WritableSpace]

As a American voter, with relatives who are displaced from their homes by this horrible disaster in the town I was born in, I say thanks, this help that has been given kindly without being asked, is much appreciated.

And I think that it's disgusting, and shameful, in what I've seen here, that a very small number of my fellow countrymen are so ready to be ungrateful to any of the fully benevolent assistance we are recieving.