The Katrinas We Have Done

Lately I have focused on the effects of Hurrican Katrina, its effects, and ramifications. Well, now it is time to continue what this site strives to bring, a different view of current events surrounding the most sensitive areas in the world, the middle east. I want you to think for a moment though how close this disaster has hit home. And despite this horrible devastation, it does not compare to what people see in Iraq on a day to day basis. With daily air raids and bombings, the help for these people will not come late, as a matter of fact it is not coming at all. Caught between American forces and insurgents, the Iraqi people have gone through their initial stage of looting and now marshall law prevailsin much of the same way as the past weeks after the law enforcement and national guards with orders of shoot to kill. This short span of horror that befell the people of New Orleans for a couple of weeks continues to haunt the Iraqi people now going on three years. If anything lets make this hurricane a precedent, that simply because a people do not look like us, speak our language or hold our same values does not diminish their humanity for if we do we are only diminishing ours.