This is hysterical.

[docwebster]

The entire article is a pretty grim BBC opinion piece about the government's failure in the aftermath of Katrina, but the hysterical part are the responses. Not all the responses are utterly gibbering mad, of course, but this guy is a real prizewinner.

Genties and ladlemen, I give you the comedy stylings of Tracie Dixon from Sand Springs, Oklahoma:

As a proud southern American your article is so far from the truth I don't even now where to begin. What I read is a liberal, European, elitist view of this absolute tragedy. Americans will help each other regardless of colour or social level. As for aid from other nations, I for one say leave it. We can and will rebuild the ravaged areas ourselves.

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[cavalorn.livejournal.com]

Incompetence on the part of those who were supposed to prepare for this eventuality, and on the part of those who failed to act when it broke out, is not grounds to attack America as an entity. Your comment on the 'invulnerability of the American Dream' painfully recalls the gloating over the 'sun finally setting on the British Empire' and has a similar how-art-the-mighty-fallen ring to it.

America is our ally, and she deserves compassion and help, not opportunistic pot-shots at her mythos. It is demeaning in the extreme to characterise Americans as 'rugged individuals, out to plunder what they can'. I can only conclude that your experience of America was commercial in nature and did not involve receiving the hospitality of any actual Americans.