The flagging empire

By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS
All the television pictures from New Orleans of water with people and houses under it certainly captured the world’s attention. What the world attended to, however, wasn’t so much the feeble efforts to relieve the city as the startling and unfamiliar sight of, as one of my Iraqi e-pen pals puts it, “so much terrible poverty in a country so much rich.”
The Globe and Mail: The flagging empire

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