Well, I don’t know if I’d call it a Sally Field Oscar moment, but apparently some of the members in our world community have offered to help us with our disaster down South.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said today these nations have offered assistance with the hurricane recovery effort:
“Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, the Organization of American States, Jamaica, NATO, Australia, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.”
Venezuela, whose leader evangelist Pat Robertson wants assassinated (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), has even offered us oil. Apparently, Saudi Arabia, our great Middle Eastern ally who has more oil than you can shake a drilling stem at, has not offered us oil. Nor has Kuwait (remember the time they were invaded by Iraq and we went to war?) I don’t know if Iraq will give us oil or whether they are in a position to do so. Meaning, I don’t know if we can just take it from them since we really are occupying their nation right now.
But yes, it seems like we need food, water, ice, beds, some Gatorade, lots of oil and about half of our National Guard back stateside right now. Oh well, Honduras and Jamaica will watch our backs.