We are all family in this and every tragedy

THIS moment is a rallying call for all who are harbouring some satisfaction at the misfortune of a country, like all others, struggling in Shakespearean fashion with its inadequacies. Indeed, this is an embarrassing moment for the United States.

Ironically, it is a happy moment for some who would downplay the charity that streams from people throughout that country to those they don’t know and could easily neglect.

So when we buy that newspaper or listen to that station replete with gratuitous attacks, perhaps we should bear in mind their agenda and remember every society has triumphs and tragedy, generosity and greed, openness and discrimination. Every society is working on its demons.