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Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Steyn!
Mark Steyn writes that "American stinginess is saving lives." What? How could our few pennies for the tsunami relief effort make any difference whatsoever? I mean, it took Gearge Bush 3 days to make a public statement, for cryin' out loud! Well, apparently we are helping. There's photographic evidence here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. But I do want to include a snippet of Steyn's piece ...
If America were to emulate Ireland and Norway, there'd be a lot more dead Indonesians and Sri Lankans. Mr Eddison may not have noticed, but the actual relief effort going on right now is being done by the Yanks: it's the USAF and a couple of diverted naval groups shuttling in food and medicine, with solid help from the Aussies, Singapore and a couple of others. The Irish can't fly in relief supplies, because they don't have any C-130s. All they can do is wait for the UN to swing by and pick up their cheque.
Mark Steyn, ladies and gentlemen!


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