It has been suggested that the recent flooding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, especially in the Swat Valley, will affect more people than the 2004 tsunami, the earthquake in Kashmir, and the earthquake in Haiti, combined.
Fortunately, unlike Haiti, Pakistan is not a US-sponsored failed state, definitely
has nuclear weapons, and may be harbouring Taliban insurgents, so North America is free to wash its hands of Pakistan's problems. No aid concerts, no presidential envoys, and no nice photo ops with Bill Clinton.
UPDATE: The United States has made the decision to start Giving A Damn about
Pakistan, and has sent Pakistan 19 helicopters loaded with aid. Kudos to them -
and maybe we'll all forget about that time, you know, when most of New Orleans was under nine feet of water and first rescue helicopters came from Vancouver - that is, the DIAGONAL OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE CONTINENT.
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