I just read the headlines

[TallahasseeGrannie]

about the earthquake toll growing to over 17,000. There are evidently small children trapped in a school and they can hear their voices.

It boggles the mind.

[AirmensMom]

1. OMG, that's terrible!

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Kire]

2. 30,000 now

I really hope this is a clerical error:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051009/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_quake

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. We are so desensitized to the numbers

since tsunami. Or at least I am.

And I watch it so safely on my TV, so far away, so much anguish.

We are such a fragile species.

[clydefrand]

4. When one really thinks about nature, we are so powerless to do

much of anything. We can construct quake and hurricane resistant structures, but nothing will stop them if they are might enough.

[JI7]

8. do you remember what the final or latest number killed from Tsunami

was ?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

10. Without googling

I think it was over half a million.

[malaise]

7. Thousands are dead

no doubt way more than 30,000. Several reports here.
http://www.dawn.com/2005/10/09/index.htm

[liberal N proud]

5. As I watched this news unfold this AM I wonder - How can America help?

America has since WWII been the largest source of relief for such tragedies in the world.
But with our resources spread so thin, with our own disasters and fighting an unnecessary war, will we be able to help?
How can we?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

6. Another reason

to choose our wars just a bit more carefully.

How much good could we have done by using those funds and that miliary (if allowed..I might be dreaming there) in Pakistan and be seen as leaders of compassion and not of war.

[babylonsister]

11. You echo my thoughts. These people

need helicopters ASAP to help drop supplies. And where are the majority of ours? In Iraq; all the money and resources being used for a senseless war when they could be used to help instead of hurt.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

12. And if your family

was helped by American helicopters and service people, are you likely to strap a vest of dynamite to yourself and blow up a NY subway?

I don't think so.

We are on the wrong path, here.

[whatelseisnew]

13. Knock knock, is anybody home?

You're being far too logical in thinking that long-term solutions to remedy the deeper problems of the US's international relations is a viable option. (to this administration anyway).

Building strong, positive relationships that are not based on financial and political gain simply does not exist in the thinking of "our rulers".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Third world country president on the scene in hours, despite no warning.

The president of this third world country of Pakistan was on the scene in hours, despite no warning.

But Bush, with all his MBA executive management skills, and all the best technology, couldn't handle a slow motion disaster that unfolded before everyone else's eyes. In his wisdom he decided a few years ago to spend the billions to create DHS to be better prepared to combat emergencies. Has Bush turned out to be a miserable failure?

Is President George W. Bush the worst president ever?