What if we walked down the street where people were face-down dying? What if some of them were Americans and some of them weren't? Would we pick up their heads and look at their faces one by one, only to drop the faces of the non-Americans right back into the ground? "That's not one of ours," we would say as we let their faces drop heavily back into the street.
While we hear calls reminding us that Puerto Ricans are Americans, and we should be giving every effort to reach them with relief supplies that were provided when Texas and Florida were hit by hurricanes, I wonder about Dominica, and the other islands in the Caribbean.
While I might agree that we should limit our government response to just the American territories (due to the debt of our government and it being true we financially can only do so much), I like the idea of our charities and relief organizations joining in the efforts to help all the islands. And, I imagine that might be what is happening. Hope so. I don't like seeing a face dropped back into the ground.
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