French press...Translated version of http://www.lemonde.fr/
"In this American South oùles divisions and the racial tensions remain still very sharp, the poorest Blacks and very often the same people are the first victims of the hurricane and the floods which followed. It is them which lived in the most exposed zones and which could not flee in time, for lack of means.
It is them which, today, are confronted with the major distress, which has more the need for immediate helps and which, the first, will undergo the consequences of what the New York Times precisely calls "the total collapse of any organized company".
Because it is another lesson of this American tragedy: "the hyperpuissance", as a former French minister for the Foreign Affairs said, in spite of his economic potential and soldier whom it is sometimes prompt to deploy outside, is unable to face an interior catastrophe of this dimension.
The structures of the State are unsuited, the insufficient first-aid organizations, the badly organized maintenance of law and order... Official studies, in vain, had drawn the attention to the brittleness of the dams which protected New-Orleans.
Whereas George W Bush had beaten already for a few weeks of the records of unpopularity for a president at the beginning of second mandate, the debate starts to go up to the United States: is it quite reasonable to spend of the hundreds of million dollars for guerroyer in Iraq when America is unable to protect its own citizens?" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lemonde.fr/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfrench%2Bnews%26hl%3Den%26hs%3D1Yy%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official">Translated version of http://www.lemonde.fr/
It is them which, today, are confronted with the major distress, which has more the need for immediate helps and which, the first, will undergo the consequences of what the New York Times precisely calls "the total collapse of any organized company".
Because it is another lesson of this American tragedy: "the hyperpuissance", as a former French minister for the Foreign Affairs said, in spite of his economic potential and soldier whom it is sometimes prompt to deploy outside, is unable to face an interior catastrophe of this dimension.
The structures of the State are unsuited, the insufficient first-aid organizations, the badly organized maintenance of law and order... Official studies, in vain, had drawn the attention to the brittleness of the dams which protected New-Orleans.
Whereas George W Bush had beaten already for a few weeks of the records of unpopularity for a president at the beginning of second mandate, the debate starts to go up to the United States: is it quite reasonable to spend of the hundreds of million dollars for guerroyer in Iraq when America is unable to protect its own citizens?" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lemonde.fr/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfrench%2Bnews%26hl%3Den%26hs%3D1Yy%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official">Translated version of http://www.lemonde.fr/
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