Earthquake

[TheMercenary]

As I understand it the French medical jet was diverted until they could make room on the ground. Maybe if less reporters were flying in the military could do the job they were sent to do.

As for the Marines arriving with weapons, well yea, they are Marines, that is what they do. I wouldn't want to be in that country without a weapon at this point and time if I were them.

[classicman]

. . . and if I were a doctor or supply person et all, I'd want their protection too.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by lookout123

...Why weren't we there helping them rebar? Because it is not our fucking job to go do everything for everybody. Why didn't we make sure they had survival supplies? It isn't our fucking job...

But it's no more "our fucking job" to dig them out, feed them, and give them medical care after an earthquake. Yet you say...

Originally Posted by lookout123

I think doing what you can right now to help someone is a good thing...

It would have cost less in lives and money if we had been good neighbors proactively.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

As for the Marines arriving with weapons, well yea, they are Marines, that is what they do. I wouldn't want to be in that country without a weapon at this point and time if I were them.

I wouldn't have wanted to be there without a weapon, before the quake.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

It would have cost less in lives and money if we had been good neighbors proactively.

OK, Chavez. The UN had peace keeping people there, something like 5000 of them. What should we have done, invade the country?
Nobody in their right mind is going to invest in an unstable, lawless, country.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

... Nobody in their right mind is going to invest in an unstable, lawless, country.

We're investing through charities now, though. Hmmm.

[classicman]

that wasn'ty your point - You said

Originally Posted by spexx

It would have cost less in lives and money if we had been good neighbors proactively.

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Originally Posted by spexx

we did nothing and their houses collapsed on them. Now give more to charity, Einstein.

The US was proactive. We gave them well over $250,000,000 over the last few years. You are wrong.

[SamIam]

It would be wonderful if we could help the entire third world - and I'm sure there are policy changes, etc that we could implement to make the aid we do give more effective. But even the US doesn't have the kind of money to give such substantial amounts of assistance to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Brazil, on and on. Sure, if we had a magic ball we could have put money in Haiti ahead of time, the same as we could have warned people about the tsunami's and sent aid to Indonesia, India, etc, ahead of time. Unfortunately, time travel has yet to be invented (no doubt the pentagon is holding out on us).

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by SamIam

It would be wonderful if we could help the entire third world - and I'm sure there are policy changes, etc that we could implement to make the aid we do give more effective. But even the US doesn't have the kind of money to give such substantial amounts of assistance to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Brazil, on and on. Sure, if we had a magic ball we could have put money in Haiti ahead of time, the same as we could have warned people about the tsunami's and sent aid to Indonesia, India, etc, ahead of time. Unfortunately, time travel has yet to be invented (no doubt the pentagon is holding out on us).

It's a shame. We're very good at being reactive, not very good at being proactive.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

that wasn'ty your point - You said


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The US was proactive. We gave them well over $250,000,000 over the last few years. You are wrong.

OK Classic, you win. We did not give them nothing. I exagerated. We did not help our neighbors so much that their buildings collapsed on them because of all the rebar they couldn't afford.

[lumberjim]

what's this 'we' shit, white man?

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

what's this 'we' shit, white man?

Not you. It's the people who are giving to charities since the earthquake.

[SamIam]

CAIRO – Rare torrential rains across the Middle East swept away homes, marooned resort towns and killed seven people Monday, including a British tourist, in what officials are calling the worst flooding in at least a decade.

The flooding along Egypt's Red Sea coast, the border with Israel and in the south left six people dead. It also damaged the roads leading to the resorts in the Sinai desert and brought down telephone and power lines.

Dam the US! We should have been sending Egypt more yachts.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

OK Classic, you win. We did not give them nothing. I exagerated. We did not help our neighbors so much that their buildings collapsed on them because of all the rebar they couldn't afford.

What???? You really believe this was preventable by the US?

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

It's a shame. We're very good at being reactive, not very good at being proactive.

lol

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Not you. It's the people who are giving to charities since the earthquake.

How bout that Tsunami? Should we have given them a 50' high wall?
We cannot prevent natural disasters - Hell we have cities built below sea level right here in the US, ferchrissakes.

We already do help proactively - to the tune of untold BILLIONS upon BILLIONS. We cannot fix every ill in the world. It is not possible. We do the best we can and when something happens we help our "neighbors" (many of whom HATE US) in their time of need as well. Just paying for everything any other country could ever need isn't a solution. Its idiotic actually.

[lumberjim]

beauty is only skin deep


ugly goes to the bone

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

beauty is only skin deep


ugly goes to the bone

Are you insinuating that I'm ugly because I think we should procatively help the downtrodden and needy?