In truth, America had men and equipment loaded into aeroplanes and headed to NZ within a couple hours of the quake’s first strike.
FEMA didn’t sit on it’s hands, this time. America was on its way, to the rescue. One of the first to respond, along with Singapore and Japan.
God Bless America, and our other Allies.
“FEMA didn’t sit on it’s hands, this time”?????? Care to explain that??
I did not realize FEMA had airplanes, aircraft carriers and the like. The politicians are probably just taking credit for the typical great military response.
I was in Australia and in NZ shortly after the tsunami and received quite a bit of crap from both the Aussies and the Kiwis about the “inadequate” USA response because CNN was showing some UN nitwit from Scandinavia saying we were not doing enough, despite the fact that his country was doing NOTHING. Frankly, I got pretty sick of hearing more USA bashing so I suggested the Kiwis and Aussies send their own bloody aircraft carriers next time there was a natural catastrophe.
I suggest USA take a 5 year moratorium regarding helping other nations and just let the UN provide the help, like they did in Egypt and Libya. Then we will see if anybody misses us.