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I have seen the American Military prowess on History and Discovery channel programs. The attack on Dresden and airlifting of food into Berlin when the Soviets blocked the allied sectors of Germany are some prime examples of the ability of the US to use its airpower in an unprecedented manner. Ability to move into any enemy territory with enormous power anywhere in the world is their forte. There is no place in the world they cannot reach, on the land, in the air and under the oceans. But all this proved wrong. New Orleans was unreacheable for 5 days. No enemy fire whatsoever. It is not situated in some remote corner in the world but right in the US. When they could have airdropped food 24x7 and lit the sky up for days, they let people die of hunger and starvation in the street where they convened for relief. Its a Shame. When you had no scarcity of food, transport or money, its an ultimate Shame that can rest the discussion of America being regarded as Super Power anymore. Please feed your people first and they you can attack someone else.

National Failures

We have a list of National ***** like National Anthem, National Song, National Animal, National Bird and what not. But I call them by one name, National Failures. Why so? Do we all know or sing our National Anthem? Or do we all know why not Vande Mataram our National Anthem? Not everyone wants to sing our National Song. We poached our National Animal to extinction. And no one cares about the National Bird either. We don't have a National leader but may be an international person acting as one. And why Hindi is our National language when not many can understand that? And why was it chosen in the first place? We may soon need to say Former National Animal and present National animal. We can instead call this a list of what we wanted to do and never did. Shame on us.

Why did we choose a British style Democracy when US was the most successful Democracy then? Why did we choose a weaker system? How can 543 jokers run a country where PM is a puppet of those jokers?

How come Hindi was chosen as the National language when Gujarath, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and West Bengal and entire North east does not speak Hindi? UP, MP, Rajasthan, Bihar are the only big states which speak Hindi. Was it just for a vote bank or to show the dominance of hindi speaking people in the govt? So there goes our failure in choosing the right one.

Do we all know the history of the country? I don know who ruled in Bengal or Gujarath for that matter? But we were all made to believe Mughals were the only rulers in the country. No one knows who built temple at Konark, but we are all taught who built the Taj. And we bicker about the Taj in every possible way. Who owns it, who pollutes it and what not?

We can add more such to the list of national failures. But no one can beat us in naming something as our national treasure and not treating it as one.

The Petro Dollars and Arab Generosity

Bill Gates tops the Forbes list once again. He is worth some 44billion$. I will firmly believe he will top the list of philantropists too. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world richest foundation carrying out work of immense priority all over the world. And most of the money for this foundation comes from Bill Gates himself. This is a commendable job, though I don't approve of all his business tactics though. As a person he is doing his part in a major way to improve the quality of life of people in all possible ways from health to education. I don't exactly know how many billionaires do this kind of charity. In general Americans do throw money for charity work in a big way. Its a fact. So do the European countries and most importantly the scandinavian countries who honour their committed percentage of GDP for global human causes. And the list of rich countries do not stop right here. We have our oil rich countries in the Gulf. I belive they haven't heard the word "charity" in their lives. May be they are not taught about it in the world class Madarasas. How can you sit on an ever growing pile of cash of billions of dollars and not ever think of improving the quality of human life, atleast in the muslim world? Saudi Arabia was the major underwriter of the 7billion$ Yom Kippur war of 1973. The same kindgom funded the Mujahideens in Afghanistan, madarasas all over the world for that matter get the petro dollars in one form or the other. What do these islamic schools teach? Hatred. Hatred for anything and everything they don't believe in. Everyone has hatred or atleast intolerance in a lighter sense, towards so many things. What do they hate, rather than listing what they hate, in the simplest way, hatred to what the entire world believes as humanity, generosity, kindness, benevolence, compassion, magnanimity, mercy, goodwill and what not. Say anything good, they hate it. Where in the whole world do you have schools to teach hatred?

Humanitarian response to the 2004 Tsunami is as follows, the link.
Look for, or basically do a microscopic search for the Arab countries to find about their generosity. And more importantly what else do these people have to offer the whole world interms of expertise. When a calamity strikes they neither donate money they have nor they have any expertise to offer. Sorry to say they lack expertise, they can fund wars, terrorists and spread hatred. They can share their expertise in slaughtering the basic human rights. When the entire world believed the way Indonesians are helped during Tsunami would dispell partially the hatred of Islamic towards non muslims, the Arab world never reciprocated. They missed their opportunity, I suspect if they ever saw one in that or the need.

Have they ever helped anyone on the humanitarian grounds? They need to realise what humanity is by the way for that to happen. I don't see that happening, do you?

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