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Originally Posted by alansmithee
As for foreign aid, i'm personally glad that we are (currently) refusing aid from other countries. It would be extremely shameful if America, supposedly the most powerful and wealthyest country in the world, was reduced to begging for outside help. To me, that would be the biggest tragedy.
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I'm going to call bullshit on this one.
When the Russian Navy had a submarine trapped under water, both the US and Great Britain rushed highly specialized equipment and crews to assist. Putin and the Russian government learned from the Kursk disaster. No country in the world, including the US, can maintain emergency equipment and crews to cover every conceivable disaster.
We've been offered and declined the best urban search and rescue team in the world from Vancouver. Why? National pride? I'm sorry, but we ought to be saving lives, not saving face.