Cool.
My daughter's best friend is Sri Lankan. We have many friends from S. India, Indonesia and Thailand as well as Sri Lanka. We will be making significant donations and service work to do what we can on this.
I think the response to the disaster is happening about as fast, and as appropriately, as it could.
The news on the actual needs has taken time to develop, and responding effectively takes time and thought, not emotional reaction and cynical posing.
It is the most geographically dispersed disaster known to history, it has happened in areas that were remote prior to the disaster, and there are very limited logistical resources to access the affected areas. If the aid is not balanced with the ability to deliver it, much of it will rot on docks or be pilfered from warehouses.
We should study this unique event carefully and learn wht we can. It is only a matter of time before something similar happens again, whether it is another earthquake/tsunami, a large volcano or a space object.
I am disturbed that the facts of what the US is doing is being drowned out be cynical rhetoric and misrepresentations. How long should we in the US put up with being simultaneously resented and envied?
I am very interested to see what the Moslem countries are doing to help so many of their own.
Do you have any insights on that aspect of this?
Ed