Tuesday - October 11, 2005

Whining Complainers: Foreign Version

Did I miss something in recent weeks? When did the whining complainers who bitched about aid arriving too little, too late for Katrina victims suddenly move to Pakistan? Is there absolutely nothing that will make these pathetic losers happy? Within hours after the earthquake tragedy in Pakistan, the US military was flying in relief supplies and promising more on the way. “Not good enough”, says Pakistan’s opposition leader. That kind of statement is is what firing squads were invented for ....

West’s Response Condemned As Slow And Inadequate
(THE INDEPENDENT - UK)

Western governments rushed to step up their pledges for the earthquake relief effort after their initial response to the disaster was condemned as slow-moving and financially inadequate. The United States, which was under pressure to increase a pledge of $500,000 (£280,000) considered almost derisory by many Pakistanis when it was made over the weekend, announced it intended to give $50m in emergency aid.

The gesture, intended to make up for the resentment caused by an initial pledge which, along with the British offering of £100,000, was labelled as “peanuts” by Qazi Hussain, the leader of the Pakistani opposition party Jamat Islami, was greeted as a major boost to the struggling relief effort. Britain, too,increased its initial pledge to £1m for the effort, which the Government stressed would again be increased in coming days.

“The magnitude of this disaster is utterly overwhelming,” Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador, said from Pakistan as he received an American transport plane full of blankets, plastic sheets and jerry cans. “We have under way the beginning of a very major relief effort,” he said. But, in a clear echo of the international response to the Boxing Day tsunami in south-east Asia, the generous donations of private businesses and individuals have caused eyebrows to be raised over government pledges which, initially at least, were regarded as relatively low.

So far, international donors have announced tens of millions of dollars in aid. But, again echoing the tsunami relief effort, aid agencies were quick to draw attention to the shortfall which almost always occurs between pledges made by governments in the immediate aftermath of a disaster and the total money that eventually arrives.

As well as the American and British pledges, the European Union has deployed aid workers to stricken parts of Pakistan and allocated €3.6m (£2.47m) in initial aid. In the Arab world, Kuwait has donated $100m and Yemen has said it will send two aid planes. South Korea, for its part, announced it would provide $3m in aid, while a 46-member search and rescue team including 18 medical officers from Malaysia was due to leave yesterday for Pakistan. Malaysia has also pledged $1m in aid. Australia lifted its contribution from $380,000 to $4.2m, with the possibility of more if it was needed.

Of course you realize the biggest problem with this is the mainstream Leftist media reporting it. They’d rather print damning stories like this with complaining from one or two sources than print stories about the lives being saved and the people who actually are grateful for any kind of help they can get. Watch the mainstream Leftist media over the next week or so and see if what I say isn’t true. Remember, you heard it here first.

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/11/2005 at 12:34 AM   
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