| Readers and commentators from abroad are watching images of chaos and despair in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and are wondering how a country so mighty could have fallen so far. "Nature Lays a Superpower Low" reads the headline of an editorial in The Hindu, a daily in Chennai. Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, commenting in another article in the paper, writes that Katrina exposed "squalor that would shame a Third World country, as well as racial and political divisions reminiscent of apartheid South Africa." "It is astonishing that these cruel indignities are happening today in one of the richest countries in human history," writes Dr. Firoz Osman in South Africa's Business Day. Mario Diamant, a commentator in La Nacion, a Buenos Aires-based daily, posits: "Can such a powerful nation be so vulnerable? Can a capricious act of nature erase 200 years of progress and technology?" |
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