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Originally Posted by seanchai
The article it's based on is the US/UK attacking China.
Do you get onto Blair and Bush's horrific human rights records of the last couple of years? Why don't we fix our own problems and set an example to the rest of the world. I thought the Geneva convention was a great way to stop some war atrocities yet this cornerstone of human rights, does not apply to the USA?
We as individuals need to get our houses in order - and that's the countries whose ever increasing taxes we keep paying.
seanchai
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The US isn't perfect.
But we don't need to be perfect to show empathy for the wholesale brutalization of the Chinese people by the Chinese government.
Katrina was an accident. Illegally razing people's houses for high rises isn't. I would add that most of the victims of Katrina failed to evacuate, and therefore, those persons bear some personal responsibility for their predicament.