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Originally Posted by MrIcky
LOL, no- I get it. But this seems like what the UN SHOULD be doing instead of the other things they actually do.
I don't disagree with this either. I know the USA is about the best prepared individual country to deal with just about anything anywhere. Let alone in a country that's pretty close to us.
However...our 22% doesn't seem to buy much.
Maybe a better way to say it is: you beat me hands down on logic, but my gut says that the UN should have been all over this instead of being these individual country reactions.
Interestingly I read this (regarding avoiding the severity of the disaster):
Not that I'd expect a government to jump every time they got a report like this, but apparently there wasn't any action of any kind.
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Oh I completely agree with you, this is EXACTLY what the UN should be used for. Hence the
As for the gov. not taking action.... as the report was in 2008, there probably wasn't too much time for them to really do anything if they had tried. The most I can see getting done is bringing their hospitals and government buildings up to code. And granted that would definitely help, but even if all the hospitals had stayed standing, they still wouldn't be able to keep up with the huge number of wounded.