Lady Pilot wrote in message
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"Edgar" wrote:

Scotty and Joe should be ashamed of their posts. The plight of this
poor
woman, and thousands of others, bears no relation whatever to that of
people

What an igornorant post! When they refuse help minutes after the
disaster,
what can one do?

LP


'Minutes after the disaster', they had no idea of the scale of the disaster,
nor did the rest of the world.
As for being ignorant I suspect, subject to correction from any of you,
that I am the only person posting here that has spent a considerable amount
of time in Sri Lanka, not as a tourist, but working, first when I was in the
Royal Navy based at Trincomalee on the east coast and years later as a
businessman working in Colombo in connection with the railways. And, by the
way, your assumption that Sri Lanka is a Muslim country is incorrect.
Certainly there are Muslims there as there are in most countries but a very
high proportion of the population have other religions, including a lot of
Christians.
Moreover, I do not agree with those who started this thread by suggesting
that the USA is dragging its feet on aid. I believe the USA is doing what
has to be done as fast or even faster than the aid can be handled at the
receiving end, which means 'fast enough'.