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56914 198 30_Re: "The case for colonialism"12_Hillary [log in to unmask], 12 Sep 2017 14:53:46 -0400480_utf-8 The (slow) hurricane aid response also raises the Q - why didn't the Dutch, French, British, any other wealthy state, send aid pre-emptively. The track of a hurricane isn't totally unpredictable. OK one doesn't want to send naval/supply ships into the path of a hurricane but surely we could have send such ships to the vicinity of say Tenerife, to await a) the exact path, and b) be just a day or two sailing away to be on hand promptly once the hurricane has passed? [...][log in to unmask] |