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Originally posted by SonicInfinity
Usually I get pissed off when I see multiple topics on the same subject on the same board, but this is one of the few things I don't mind it with. So many people dead...this needs as much attention as it can get.
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's isolationist regime allowed the first plane of a major international airlift to land Thursday with aid for cyclone survivors, a U.N. official said, amid fears that lack of safe food and drinking water could push the death toll above 100,000.
But the junta was not allowing U.S. military planes to fly in critical relief goods and continued to stall on visas for U.N. teams urgently seeking entry to ensure aid is delivered to the victims.
Navy vessels from India and planes from Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Laos and Bangladesh had arrived in recent days with medicine, candles, instant noodles, raincoats and other relief supplies, it said.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Oh, yes, you are absolutely RIGHT!
I mean, we spend billions on a war, we spend billions so fat ass American's can get an extra $600 to spend at Macdonald's and Wal Mart, God forbid we use money to do something good for the world.
3 million in that region is a lot of money, and I recognize that we will spend many times that with our naval units being there. However, when a country suffers a tragedy and looses ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE! .. Our pledge should be 10 times what we currently have.
Anyone who has a problem with America acting in a charitable way has, imo, lost the spirit and ideas that made this nation what it is.
Your dodging the question. How much have you PERSONALLY contributed?
Why should we? It just seems like every time we try to help, people think we are trying to take over the place. I am getting a little sick of getting smacked in the face rather than thanked for our efforts.
So would you support increasing our taxes so we can pay for all of these humanitarian missions?
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Why the hell should we be thanked for humanitarian efforts?
I find it sad yout think that we should be praised for our charity.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
I don't feel sorry for military persons that feel homesick. They know full well they joined the armed services, going out on missions shouldn't be a surprise. Especially humanitarian. We as tax payers don't pay them to sit in their bases and have a good time with their families. Of all the servicemen I know, the only complaint I have heard from them is the repeated tours in Iraq (I know a guy who's been there 3 times and has to go back). But then again, 5 years in Iraq is a little different then 5 weeks in a humanitarian mission.. no?
Originally posted by Telafree
was this really a 'super storm'? or was it the way the citizens built their houses that caused the large amount of deaths? When I saw the reports on tv, it looks like their homes were not made to survive a cyclone/hurricane.
(they are the same, aren't they>?)
Tela
Originally posted by QBSneak000
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