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"The time of failed leadership must end or we are committing national suicide"

We can't change until Nov, so hang on. There's an international help line, if you need.

Timothy Egan: The world is taking pity on us

Will American prestige ever recover?



TIMOTHY EGAN


MAY 12, 2020

1:30 AM

In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland — something the Irish, who lost more than 1 million people in a famine made worse by British indifference, have never forgotten. The Irish are now giving financial aid to Native American tribes hit with a pandemic that has been made worse by American incompetence.

This is a gracious act, a boomerang of goodwill, as reported by my colleagues Ed O’Loughlin and Mihir Zaveri. But it also shows how much of the world has started to feel sorry for a nation laid low by the lethal ineptitude of President Donald Trump.

“The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful,” wrote Fintan O’Toole in The Irish Times. And he asked: “Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode?”