Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And the inescapable conclusion you came to is that the entire world is laughing about this? Also, take this news with a grain of salt -- Canada so far has only removed 260 people and the front page of a major Canadian daily today has a big photo of US citizens relaxing on board a cruise vessel that removed them from Lebanon. Yesterday's CBC news had a story on US removal, comparing it favourably to efforts by other countries. CBC is hardly pro-US. Scarcely a chuckle at the US to be seen in any of the media I've been looking at, from BBC to Ha'aretz, to various papers and TV broadcasts in Canada. The US is no further behind other countries in getting people out. So, I'm still looking for some evidence to support your assertion that the whole world is laughing at the US's evacuation efforts. I'd be grateful if you could actually provide some evidence of widespread international reaction to this, not just your unsupported exterpolation of a news story from CNN that says US efforts are tardy. Even if they were, which is doubtful, show me the international hilarity over this. Mark On 7/20/06, Bill Smith <wrs111445@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Try watching CNN where you could clearly see a few days ago that the USA > was following other countries in evacuating their citizens. I didn't make > that news up--it is fact. > > Mark Langer <langeratcarleton@gmail.com> wrote: I'm not a huge fan or > your current administration, but can't see the problem > there. Certainly, the Americans are getting their people out quicker than > some countries (you should be aware of the slow progress of evacuation > plans > for up to 40,000 Canadian citizens in Lebanon). It is the height of the > summer cruise season and ships capable of carrying passengers are in short > supply. Military vessels are not equipped to handle thousands of civilian > evacuees, to say nothing of the logistics of moving people around within > Lebanon during the conflict. So I'm not clear about the basis of your > criticism. I've been looking at news reports from outside your country, > and > am not aware that the U.S. evacuation effort has made your country the > "laughing stock of the world." Could you give us some indication where > this laughter is coming from? > > Mark > > On 7/19/06, Bill Smith wrote: > > > > Is FEMA in charge of the "evacuation" of our fellow Americans? Shades of > > post Katrina--once again we're the laughing stock of the world. I pray > for a > > new administration that doesn't screw up everything they touch. > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >