US Squandering Foreign Aid Offers

From a New Zealand newspaper:

"Other assistance unlikely to be accepted is from longtime foe Cuba, which has more than 1500 doctors on standby waiting to come to the United States. The State Department said there appeared to be enough US medical volunteers.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack called coordinating the aid offers a 'complicated process.'
'I think that what we have seen is a very effective response from the Department of State, as well as the other US government agencies, to really in a concrete way realize these offers of assistance on the ground,' he said. "

Amazing, amazing. The auto-congratulatory State Department is "very effective"? Is a doctor "very effective" when all of his patients are dying? Is a teacher effective when his students are failing? Is a department effective when there are still bodies decomposing in the streets after days and days?



Are US medical volunteers "enough" when people are dying of dysentery, starving to death and dying of thirst? When old folks with medical conditions are just left to die?

How dare this somber cretin say that his Department is effective? What a cynical attitude, tantamount to "leaving the poor to die is OK by us, we're just doing our jobs!" What a bloodthirsty scoundrel! With the still-countless dead turning the entire southern coast into a plague area, we have a petty, ideological, "let the poor die and rot" spokesman complaining about how difficult it is for him to "realize in an effective way" the many, many offers of real assistance from much poorer countries than the US. If you can't get it together, McCormack, find someone who can!

Once again, squandered good will.
Once again, Americans put in jeopardy by the Bush Administration.