Apr 23, 2014

Disaster Disasters

     I'm not sure which disaster was more badly handled, the missing passenger jet or the Ferry upside down under water.

     But I know which reaction I think is more appropriate. The LA Times headlines the story this morning:

Ferry Disaster Fills South Korea with Shame.

The story says the image of those well-behaved, obedient to their elders students drowning within sight of land is too terrible for them to bear. Is South Korea some 3rd World nation, they ask?

     Meanwhile in the Third World, Malaysia, confusion reigns.The plane was headed there...no there..but wait, perhaps it was over there all along. Not a lot of shame that I've heard from that quarter.

      Can you imagine the reaction among Americas if it either had happened here? We have our own share of disasters, but we generally know pretty quickly where the wreckage is. And sometimes turn disaster into a triumph.


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