The international public is upset and angry that leaders of nations deny medical help for their people when offered by outsiders. The recent cyclones in Myanmar (Burma) and earthquakes in China have killed more than 150,000 people and made several million homeless. What motivates those leaders? Why not accept all help available? You know the reason.
They feel insecure in their power.
They turned down offers of aid whenever foreigners wanted to enter Myanmar and China, but there is great comfort in knowing that regular people care, everywhere. Most folks want to lend a hand to other human beings, regardless of the flags they fly.
When hit by Katrina, a hurricane that claimed about 2,000 American lives, a self-styled "compassionate conservative president" named George W. Bush rejected an offer from Cuba to send - the very next day - 1,586 doctors and 83 field hospitals to Mississippi and Louisiana. Mr. Bush did not hesitate to say "no" and he did not ask people in the disaster area if they wanted Cuban aid.
As it turned out, our decider's disaster department, FEMA, was so little and so late that the Cubans could have made a tremendous difference. Disaster upon disaster because of another insecure leader.
Governments and dictators are all alike. They're proud, arrogant, power-mad, and insecure. Politics attracts that type, with too few notable exceptions.
It's all so simple.
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