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Originally Posted by lookout123
and back to the red cross and NGO aid flowing in... do you seriously not understand that government regulations require that even after funds and support had been pledged, formal requests had to be made from the governments in need before the US government could do anything? the red cross and other NGO's can go and do as they please - they are after all Non-Governmental Organizations. international politics has a set of rules that are to be followed. We gripe when they aren't followed, we can't rightly gripe when they are.
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So we keep the ships in Japan waiting for the phone lines to be restore to the Maldives? Or we put the standard first response equipment on the nearest ships and get those ships moving. Nine countries and not one requested help? You are dreaming. No you are inventing for the sake of argument. You saw the satellite photos. Do you wait for your neighbor to finally learn his house is on fire before you prepare to help him save his house? Ten days is too late for any help. And yet Lookout123 says the USS Kitty Hawk should stay in Japan. Do nothing. Be happy. It was only 100,000 lives. Too few to expedite any help.
This is a direct question of George Jr as a leader. He had those satellite pictures. Lookout123 says he must wait to be invited, then take days to get ships to the scene. This is the moral response. This is what a world leader does? Or this is what a leader does when in denial.