The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has received huge media attention, but despite pathetic attempts to halt the oil from continuing to spill, the greatest environmental disaster in the history of the world continues to flow virtually unabated.
BP's bumbling, and the velvet glove treatment by the U.S. government of the problem (aka succumbing to corporate extortion by BP) is absolutely criminal.
But why is there only silence coming from the neighbouring nations, and the rest of the world for that matter. If the spill potentially affected Canada's coast lines, don't you think we'd say and do something. Anything?
So, why hasn't Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Belize, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala said something. They all share coastlines along the gulf. As perplexing as their silence is, there is nothing from the United Nations as to who should be screaming, quite literally, murder.
The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers has always had the expertise and ability to solve the oil flow problem within days, but their hands are tied by executive decisions in the White House.
The American people are outraged, but confused about who to blame.
They want to love Barack Obama, but he's beginning to seem a lot more like a friend that you've always believed would help you in a pinch, but when a bully comes around, does nothing but cowardly watch you get the snot beat out of you.
Is the White House, Pentagon and North American media on BP's payroll? Are they deliberately sweeping the whole "international environmental disaster" angle under the carpet, misleading the North American population?
No one outside the inner circle knows for sure, but the silence from neighbouring countries tells quite the tale, when you read between the lines.
Will Lewis
Prince George
