Maybe we need some aid from abroad. Many countries have more experience in helping their own people than we apparently do.

It's been offered, but Bush turned it down, and in one case turned back a flight of materials and workers from Canada.

That is ridiculous as well as rude. It would be one thing to deny aid, if it wasn't needed, another when it is. I think we (or he) are too embarrassed to accept help or perhaps to allow other people in to see the mess. I'm glad nobody in Israel reads anything other than Israeli news or perhaps they are too polite to comment on the story. Probably the same thing in Argentina.