Thru Canadian & Irish eyes

"We have all watched as a large part of the United States fell from a First World society into Third World death, chaos and social breakdown."

--Historian J.L. Granastein, a fellow of the Canadian Defense and Foreign Affairs Institute, writing in Canada's The Globe and Mail


"When America looks at the huge expanse of filthy, fetid water that has drowned New Orleans, it becomes a mirror in which it finally sees the scars on its own face. The scars of poverty, of racism, of ideological zealotry, of public corruption and of environmental degradation, usually concealed by a cosmetic media, become visible."

--Fintan O'Toole, writing in The Irish Times