It's a fact.

10/10/2005 6:49:35 PM

yeah well most of the rest of us don't either

10/10/2005 6:51:52 PM

Well most of America probably can't even locate Pakistan on a map.

10/10/2005 7:03:00 PM

but it's on the map


and in the end, isn't that all that really matters?

10/10/2005 7:04:25 PM

hell, i believe we got help to pakistan faster than we did to new orleans. winning the hearts and minds while losing our soul.

[Edited on October 11, 2005 at 1:26 AM. Reason : heart and mind]

10/11/2005 1:25:31 AM

We gave them 6 or 8 helicopters and $50 million in aid within 24 hours of the earthquake. Much better response than Katrina...

10/11/2005 10:10:18 AM

^Sowing the seeds for outsourcing.

10/11/2005 10:23:30 AM

outsourcing what to pakistan? durka durka and "rock throwing technology"?

10/11/2005 10:24:56 AM

did something happen over there recently?

10/26/2005 11:32:29 PM

I know he sold them 16 raggady ass F-16 fighter jets, pissed India so much (which is so damn hilarious), and so yea Bush do care.

10/27/2005 2:03:09 AM

One theory I heard from my South Asian Politics prof is that Americans are just getting numbed to huge disasters.

I mean, we gave a shitton to the tsunami even though it affected a bunch of countries most Americans have never heard of. What was the last ginormous disaster before that? How long ago was it? The only thing that leaps to mind was 9/11, but that was a good four years ago. And before that, seems like it must've been a while. Then we gave a shitton to New Orleans because it was in our country and was still pretty bad.

Pakistan's earthquake had the misfortune to be the fourth big disaster in as many years, and no matter how many people died, it's just harder for Americans as a whole to care any more. The fact that it is a fairly obscure country to many peoples' minds may not have even entered into it.

10/27/2005 4:23:09 AM