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Over 19,000 people confirmed dead, with 42,000 people injured, and countless people still trapped under millions of tons of rubble or suddenly homeless, separted from family, in need of medical attention… and the benevolent United States has allocated $100,000 in relief funds. Whoo. We spent twenty times that on the war in Iraq today. And more Americans probably died. A tragedy. But the scope of the nigh $200,000,000,000 spent on the war in Iraq… in the scope of 19,000 lives lost… and America responds by releasing enough aid to buy one middle-class American home.

And WHERE, pray tell, are the multitudes of “click here to donate to some worthy organization that is helping save lives and provide shelter and comfort for the thousands displaced” links? How was Yahoo and the BBC and CNN so quick to instantly start pulling American charity to help– don’t let me minimize that tragedy, but please, let’s keep some perspective– the victims of Katrina?

Another catastrophy– how many in how few months?– and another seemingly catostrophic failure of the global community to respond.

Of course, what do I accomplish by complaining about it? What-ev. When the “donate to some aid organization” links start appearing, post them in the comments, please and thank you.