BP Oil Gusher: US Finally Accepts Swedish Aid
Two months after Sweden said yes, the United States has finally accepted Sweden’s offer of oil booms and equipment. However the Swedish offer of three vessels specially built for cleaning up oil has sadly not been accepted by the United States.
“We do not know why it has taken so long, maybe there have been difficulties with coordination”, Mikael Östlund, press secretary of Minister for Defence Sten Tolgfors, told the newspaper.
In May the United States said it had received offers of aid to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from a number of countries, including Sweden. Still, the US State Department said there was no immediate need for the assistance offered.
Last week US officials said the country would accept offers from 12 foreign countries, including Norway, to help clean up and contain the BP oil spill.
“The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries and international bodies, including two high speed skimmers and fire containment boom from Japan,” a US State Department statement said. “We are currently working out the particular modalities of delivering the offered assistance,” it said, adding that details would be “forthcoming once these arrangements are complete.”
Why does the U.S Government seem so paralyzed? Where is the famous American “Can Do”? We help out the world in their crises, why did it two months to accept their help?
This isn’t Cuba, Iran, Chavez or North Korea this is Sweden and Norway!
Something very strange going on here.
