BMJ 2005;331 (10 September), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7516.0-f
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The kindness of strangers
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On the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Americans find themselves once again counting the cost of an unimaginable catastrophe. This time though, the world has looked on not in awe at the human spirit arising from the ashes of the Twin Towers, but in shock and shame at the sight of the world's richest country doing so little so late for its poorest people. The fallout from Hurricane Katrina will be weighed in thousands of lives lost and many more thousands wrecked (pp 526, 531, 582), and in further damage to America's reputation around the world.
When the US government finally accepted offers of help from the United Nations last week, secretary general Kofi Annan might have been forgiven for feeling a certain degree of schadenfreude. This is after all also the UN's 60th anniversary, an opportunity for the UN's critics to crank up pressure to reform. Few
Fiona Godlee, editor
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