an intense view of America from the Irish Times:

[Aristus]

19. Hm.

As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”

Well, we are a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders are too corrupt and stupid to head off mass suffering...