PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The staggering scope of Haiti's nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the heart of this luckless land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in the rubble. A.P.
What is happeneing in Haiti should touch every human heart and minds,it is an example of what can happen, will happen and is happening to us in our lives. We are being given another 'wake up call", another grave warning about how fragile we are despite our boasts of being evolved and superio among God's creation. When faced with such devastation we we can witness how beastly we can become worse off than the worse of God's creatures and we are Humans!
We pride ourselves in our ability to fight wars creating sophisticated weapons of mass destructions that can be delivered with clinical precision and yet we cannot deliver a bottle of mineral water to those whose very lives depends on it! We pride ourselves in our ability to organized and execute actions on the spur of the moment when it comes to eliminating far away enemies hidden in caves and mud houses, but when it comes to delivering aids to single Island nation id dire need of help we are at a logger head as to who is the boss in these here operations.
Watch and learn, watch and learn is all that those of us faraway from the scene can do for our turn might be around the corner and how we have learned from these natural disasters will matter in how we attend to ours if and when it happens... rest assured happen it will as we are the cause of it and our refusal to admit and face it is a collective denial we are all guilty of; the planet is slowly but surely beginning to fall apart and Atlas is shaking his shoulders from too much crap sipping down his back. What has climate change got to do with Tsunamies and earthquakes?! Ask the experts. Perhaps nothing . perhaps God (whatever God or whose God it is) is just beginning to get pissed off at our arrogance as man who instead of becoming the wards of this lonely planet have turned into its worse nightmare. Pick your choice and ask yourselves what would happen...if... it is us; the petronas twin Towers stands on reclaimed land they say... it will come tumbling down if... pray hard that it does not.. and if it does ...how do we cope... dont assume for the answers to these idiotic questions may spell chaos or success... it is more vital than the 'word' Allah when shit hits the fence.
Malaysia's pride in being a multi this and multi that can be her worse nightmare when push comes to shove and an event like that unfolding in Haiti can turn this country into hell overnight just because we are multi this and that, it will make May 13th looked like child's play. And aids? Look around us for help...who? Indonesia? Singapore? Thailand? The US? These nations has one axe or another to grind with us like it or not thanks to our Mlaysia Boleh high and mighty attitude towards them in the past especially during the reign of the former PrimeMinister whose words of wisdom has more than often kicked some other nation in the teeth because he was right and was in the positon to make it so. The one saving grace that we as a nation might have going for us is the fact that we are and have always been a charitable nation towards providing aids to others. On account of this alone others might look upon us with compassion when it is our turn to face the wrath of nature.
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