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Actually, there have been offers from all over. The U.S. has been turning them all down. Just because you haven't heard it on the news doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Of course nobody is offering financial assistance. In situations like this governments and national organizations of Red Cross/Crescent/Exotic Animal routinely and without much ado offer S&R teams, mobile field hospitals, blood and plasma, tents, water purification kits, resources like that that might be stretched thin regardless of efforts to be prepared.

Edit: Actually, it turns out that many countries are offering financial assistance, too (including Sri Lanka's token $25000). France offered, among other things, 8 airplanes, 2 ships, hundreds of tents; Germany is ready to free up 2 millions barrels of their strategic oil reserves a day for a month... State department is yet to accept any of this.


Edited by bonzi (02/09/2005 16:39)
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