This little gem has already been widely linked, and for good reason.
Today, during an afternoon conference that wrapped up my project of the last 18 months, one of my Euro collegues tossed this little turd out to no one in particular:" See, this is why George Bush is so dumb, theres a disaster in the world and he sends an Aircraft Carrier..."
After which he and many of my Euro collegues laughed out loud.
and then they looked at me. I wasn't laughing, and neither was my Hindi friend sitting next to me, who has lost family in the disaster.
I'm afraid I was "unprofessional", I let it loose -
"Hmmm, let's see, what would be the ideal ship to send to a disaster, now what kind of ship would we want?
Something with its own inexhuastible power supply?
Something that can produce 900,000 gallons of fresh water a day from sea water?
Something with its own airfield? So that after producing the fresh water, it could help distribute it?
Something with 4 hospitals and lots of open space for emergency supplies?
Something with a global communications facility to make the coordination of disaster relief in the region easier?
Well "Franz", us peasants in America call that kind of ship an "Aircraft Carrier". We have 12 of them. How many do you have? Oh that's right, NONE.
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great article
Excellent Link
just wanted to say that i think what you said was great. i am certainly not (and never will be) a fan of dubyah but i must agree that at least we as a nation through the generosity of dubyah are doing something productive....i'm really sorry your colleagues think its necessary to make politcal commentary on the relief effort. peace, anastasia
Might want to post that at the varifrank site, he may or may not see it here.
Not everyone understands "blockquoting", I see.
Okay, color me stupid.