I’ve been waiting to hear about one of those concerts.
It is a stark contrast to see how a disaster is handled (and responded to) in a thriving first world nation vs. an always-stumbling helpless 3rd world country.
Speaking of allies, Korea is showing a heart for Japan:
“International fuel assistance began taking shape Thursday, when South Korea said it would redirect some of its liquefied natural gas products to its neighbor....S Oil Corp. of South Korea said it would also boost its deliveries of oil products by more than 29 million gallons.”
Rescue efforts are being severely challenged by four major obstacles, including the harsh winter weather and fuel shortages as well as the unimagineable dimensions of devastation. The 4th obstacle is the diversion of attention to the nuclear radiation fears.
Thus far, there are ZERO deaths due to radiation sickness. Compare that to the EQ+tsunami mounting death toll.
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.