Residents of the rest of the developed world can be forgiven for imagining that the United States is big enough, ugly enough and rich enough to come to its own aid, without the need for any worldwide appeals. They'd be forgetting however that America simply isn't used to helping its own destitute. Treating them as a threat comes more naturally.
"It's like being in a Third World country," Mitch Handrich, a manager at Louisiana's biggest public hospital told the media yesterday. Most of the people unable to jump in their cars and flee Katrina last weekend could have told him that long before the hurricane hit! This is the uncomfortable truth that the disaster has exposed.
"This is our tsunami," says Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway. Well, not quite.
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