Outsourcing jobs to these countries would help, but that too is considered evil exploitation. So I guess charity will have to do for now until we change our way of thinking globally to level things out. Shall we bring these 3rd world countries up by encouraging capitalist governments to become self sufficient or should we let the 3rd world countries drag us down with their civil wars, corrupt governments and backward economies and tossing money into their pits?
I am not sure where you are going. Are you saying that the Pope / Catholic Church should encourage pro-creation, and that GWB should cut down the family planning budget overseas?
Maybe because you chose to ignore the beginning of my statement that you quoted:
If we can’t do it for our own country, what makes you think we can do it for any other country? Yeah, population is concern too, but I was stressing more on your over-reaching disaster preparedness plans, not on population reduction as a solution. Nature will take care of this regardless of our intentions, inevitability.
Also, let me direct you to this post in this thread which explains why there’s less emphasis on a tsunami warning system in the Indian ocean when cyclones occur much more frequently and cumulatively causes more damage and loss of life than infrequent tsunamis in the Indian Ocean.
But . . . but . . . is “infrequency” a reason not to take EASY PREVENTIVE MEASURES THAT COULD HAVE (we now know) SAVED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVES?
Shouldn’t American Congressmen and scientists be able to PREDICT EVERY DISASTER THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN ANYWHERE and then PREVENT IT WITH THEIR UNLIMITED RESOURCES?
This is all second-guessing and utopianism. Suppose the U.S. had made the dubious decision to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a system to detect and warn of (very rare) Indian Ocean tsunamis (which might not save many lives, as the peasants and fishermen in Indonesia might well have been unequipped to hear and effectively act on any warning). But then, say, the once-every-hundred-years-disaster that actually struck this Christmas was, instead, an explosion of Kilimanjaro, or a flash flood that inundated Buenos Aires. Would WUC spend one moment acknowledging that the U.S. had tried to predict the unpredictable, and give the U.S. credit for the (unused) Indian tsunami detectors? Nah. That is not how blame-America-firsters operate. The answer to “how much must America do” is always “more, much, much more.”
I’m finding it hard to take him seriously as his OP focused entirely on the allegedly-shameful nature of U.S. aid in response to the tsunami. Now he has changed his tune 100%, without any real explanation (other than the obvious one that his OP now looks silly because U.S. responsive aid will be massive and will save as many lives as can be saved at this point). No, now (but only now) he wants to shift the focus to “prevention” and “foreign policy” and “ameliorating poverty.”
I do not believe the trickle down charitable actions during a trauma is the answer.
Gee, then explain the OP in which you focused solely on the alleged lack of charitable actions during a trauma. Why would you care, if such actions are not the answer?
No point arguing Yeticus – I think the goalposts will continue to move, if he’s as dedicated to finding after-the-fact reasons for faulting the U.S. as it seems.