Good point. I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that the recovery efforts in Japan are going to get very little attention here in the U.S. media over the next few months. It will be utterly embarrassing when Japan makes more progress in the first 48 hours after this earthquake than Haiti has made in more than a year after the January 2010 disaster.
God love them all, but there’s no comparing the Japanese with the Haitians..civilization-wise or anything else...the Japanese are far more sophisticated a people and will recover very quickly and resiliantly from any disaster that befalls them.