I'm sorry to say this, but since we went to play no part in our world. Then I will say to be fair, that we should not help the people in a third world low laying place it just hit. NO AID,Funds or anything. You can't have a double stardards.

It can/should be up to churches and their mission programs to help in times like this and/or Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse for ie.

We should just give the amount of aid countries like britian give.

We should never close the door on anyone. We should always have open arms to all human beings regardless of who they are and what color they are.

God Bless America.

Matthew,

Wouldn't you reckon that church mission programs, Samaritan's Purse, CARE, UNICEF, etc., would be viable enough?

I mean it's no wonder that we have such a budget deficit here in the U.S. and plus we have a lot of poverty, etc., here on our own home soil.

US wars waste billion$ but no money for humanitarian crises?

What a generation we have reared!

You have a point Eric. If we can help these people though we should in any way we can without hurting our country in the process.

Not that I'm against intervening in some situations, but there is a difference between staying out of a country's political affairs and sending aid to poor people who have virtually nothing after being hit by a devastating storm.

Personally that low laying country that is about the size of washington has 150,000,000 people. Maybe it is not so bad that a few million are removed from the equation....Having so many people in a tight area makes it poor and makes it very hard to move out of the hole that country is in. They should be thanking god for Sidr. That may sound nuts, but it is truthful.

This sucks for the people that die from the cyclone. It is sad that so many people have to live this way, but they and only they can over throw there government and make it better for them selfs. I say copying some of our systems for starters.

Saying its good for people to be wiped out of the equation imo, is despicable. It is a tight country, however life could be more prosperous with better government leadership.

Its not always that easy...and our system is not going to work everywhere, nor is it turning out to be very successful lately...I don't think our country is what it once used to be.