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We donated to Haiti, and just made a donation to Japan.

I admit it, I think the donation we made to Japan will be used more effectively than the donation to Haiti. That has no direct implication to the Haitian people, but more to the leftists who handle the money.

I heard someone ask Rush yesterday, why aren’t the Chinese/Russians/Indians helping?

Hell. Why aren’t WE helping beyond the military? We probably have more nuclear (we do) experience than any other country on earth. When this situation happened, there should have been long teleconferences between the Japanese Prime Minister and the President of the USA, with representatives from the industry taking marching orders and offering suggestions.

We should have had lots of talent flown in there on military aircraft and ferried to the site stat.

None of that happened to my knowledge. It is a failure of leadership. More likely, it is because nobody in the administration has any contacts (useful, friendly or otherwise) in nuclear industry in this country. Matter of fact, those in the administration were probably mortal enemies of the industry.

Well, there could be the possibility that the Japanese have not asked for help beyond the nuclear situation. Even the Salvation Army has to ask for permission for access. I remember when all those countries were offering to help during Katrina, and we actually turned them down. Of course, was that really help being offered, or just political posturing?

I can't imagine that the US military we already have there isn't being utilized, but I haven't heard anything about that. I am also assuming that the USS Ronald Reagan, which apparently has the capability to turn 400,000 gallons of seawater into potable water per day, isn't being used for that purpose in addition to providing help with the Fukushima plant. But again, I haven't heard anything about it. All I hear or see on the news is "The reactor is going to blow! We're all going to diiiieeeee!!!!!"

The Salvation Army is the only organization I’ll donate to these days.

And yes, there’s a serious lack of leadership in this country. It is hard to fathom why large military generators weren’t brought in by any means necessary immediately after the reports of the disabled generators on site.

This is how I have felt about this. We’re not doing near what we could be doing. In times past, we’d be offering enormous aid.

I blame it on the Disco King in chief. Entirely HIS to blame ...hell, they blamed everything that went wrong w/ Katrina on Bush. They’ll likely blame THIS on Bush as well.