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Don't knock Iceland-- they dispatched a full medical service, and rescue and recovery team, with the ability to sustain itself in the field for several weeks within hours of the quake. But nobody comes close to the medical support Cuba provided and provides. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eli Stephens" <elishasteph...@hotmail.com> To: "David Schanoes" <sartes...@earthlink.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] interview with ISO member in haiti > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > How utterly amusing. TWO AND A HALF MONTHS after I called attention to the > ISO's obviously deliberate attempt (in two separate articles) to avoid > mentioning Cuba's heroic effort in providing aid to Haiti, along comes Dan > Russell attempting, presumably, to "set the record straight" by citing a > recently published article on the subject that, lo and behold, actually > mentions Cuba. > > HOW it does so, however, is just as telling as its belated appearance. > Just to begin with, it gets its facts wrong: "Cuba sent dozens of doctors > to join the several hundred doctors already working the country." No, Cuba > sent HUNDREDS of doctors to join the several hundred already working in > Haiti. Even more important than that is the context in which this is even > mentioned - not one of praising Cuba's effort, but only as a bludgeon to > compare and belittle the U.S. effort. And even in that role, Cuba is > mentioned THIRD, behind China and Iceland (Iceland!!), even though Cuba's > response was orders of magnitude larger (and more rapid) than either of > those. > > Sorry, Dan, what you (and the ISO article you cite) have succeeded in > accomplishing is precisely the opposite of what you intended, and just > further proof that the ISO will stop at nearly nothing to avoid praising > the accomplishments of the Cuban revolution. > > > > Eli Stephens > Left I on the News > http://lefti.blogspot.com > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > inbox. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_1 > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/sartesian%40earthlink.net ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
