Hey, thanks for the nice article, but nice German magazine articles aren't getting people fed. Where are all the Europeans? Chirac and Schroeder may want to become "poles in opposition to US power," but they are AWOL from this immediate situation. Where are the German, French, Italian, and Spanish navies? Don't the Europeans have any airplanes or ships? It is, what, 2-weeks since the disaster and we are still waiting for more than "diplomats" and "assessment groups". Yeah, yeah, thanks for pledging the bits of money and all, but (news for you?), people cannot eat money.
Can any of you nice European FReepers here tell me how many people Germany or France have fed to date? For that matter, how many people has the UN fed? Directly, not including OTHER country's efforts (like the US, Australia, Japan, and Singapore). Medical care? How many patients have the EU relief doctors seen? How many tonnes of medical supplies has the EU delivered?
Maybe socialism has REALLY rendered the EU impotent. Looks like your politicians are really good at insulting and deriding other nations responses, but can't get it up when it comes to actually DOING something (as opposed to dumping some money on the problem and letting others do the heavy lifting).
The Americans are doing the work, the Germans are looking things over and conferring.
His article from yesterday is here:
Free Republic....US-Navy Flying Aid, German Army Still Looking Things Over"
I'm not a European, and I also do know that articles don't feed refugees.
Articles that praise our military are rare, however, especially from Europe and, when there is a European reporter who rides with our guys who has the b*lls to put his praise of them in print, I'm going to translate it if I can.
longjack
Where are the German, French, Italian, and Spanish navies? Don't the Europeans have any airplanes or ships?
The Europeans can say all they want to about massive sums of money for "rebuilding" (a giant waste machine)...but those little villagers in Thailand and Sri Lanka...know who is bringing them water each day...and setting up tents...and dumping food on their front doorstep...and its not Europe. They are surviving right now because of what the US is doing...pure and simple. They will remember us 20 years from now when they talk of the great flood...and what the Americans did to help them. Life is fair...we get our payback now...and the Europeans can't say a word. Even Ossama looks like a dog when Muslims in the Pacific say thanks for clean drinking water coming from a US Marine.