Has anyone heard from the International Community about coming to the aid of the American people? It seems to be very quiet......anyone? Hello?.... anybody? World.....? Hello? Are you there?
Anybody home?
Hallo. Jedermann Haupt?
Sind Sie dort?
Hola. ¿Cualquier persona Casero?
¿Está usted allí?
Bonjour. N'importe qui À la maison? Êtes-vous là?
Ciao. Chiunque Domestico? Siete là?
Hello. Qualquer um Home? Estão você lá?
こんにちは。家だれでもか. あなたはそこにあるか .
你好。任何人家庭? 是你那里吗?
Hello? Anybody remember a Tsunami? Water...destruction...people hurt... dying....chaos...***
Oh.... and we aren't asking for it, and we might not even take it if offered... we're stubborn like that... but wouldn't it be nice if the world offered and responded en masse anyway.
*UPDATE: blurbs from Der Spiegel
[ 22.34 ] The governments of more than 20 countries offered after the hurricane "Katrina" assistance to the USA. According to data of the State Department in Washington are under it is enough allied like Germany and Japan, in addition, poor countries such as Honduras and the US-critical government in Venezuela ..US Foreign Minister Condoleezza Rice thanked the German minister of foreign affairs Joschka Fischer according to data of a AA speaker in a telephone call for the German offer of help. It wanted to inform US president George W. Bush about the German offer. Rice, which originates even from the Federal State concerned Alabama, stressed that she will not hesitate, to return to the offer of the Federal Government. An official request for aid from Washington so far however not yet forwards. Also the German Federal Armed Forces are to examine according to agency reports, to what extent it could take part in assistance..
After the federation and Bavaria now also Baden-Wuerttemberg assured to the USA after the devastating hurricane assistance. Prime Minister Guenther Oettinger expressed his sympathy in a letter to US Ambassador in Germany, William Robert Timken, and offered to him "any support". Baden-Wuerttemberg can render help by the technical welfare organization, with crews to the search for missed one and with drinking water processing plants, let the CDU politician communicate.
Nice to know*.
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