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To: kumar who wrote (93828)	1/5/2005 12:43:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

I don't understand why saying the US is helping the world, that is considered cynical by you. Not helping is cynical. It's true, the US does help the world. Not just us, of course. Norway and Japan are helping quite a bit, for example. In contrast, no help at all from the Middle East, apparently not even to help brother Muslims. It's human nature to help your own, but that doesn't appear to go very far. A couple of days ago, one of the stories I saw on TV was about a man who survived the tsunami but was trapped in his house for three days, and eventually died. His neighbors did nothing to help him because they were looking for their own children, whom they still have not found. That would be inconceivable in the US, to listen to a man calling for help for three days, and do nothing, and let him die. Things like that do happen from time to time, of course, but the callousness and heartlessness is shocking to the rest of us. But the people in the story thought it was perfectly reasonable.