Canada has a disaster team called 'DART'. Here is the wikipedia write-up explaining the DART team. They only go into countries though, if invited. they are standing by still waiting for an invitation. Go figure.

>Sometimes I just don't agree with you Dragan. I don't doubt the U.S. administration might be trying to use this situation to its advantage to improve the world's view of this country (given the world's current low opinion of this country). Still, that is similar to a man who earns one million a year needing to improve his public image donating 50,000 to a family in poverty and with starving children. If the family refuses the help because they don't want to help improve the man's image then the children are the one's who suffer - all for the parents' pride. Just plain wrong. It is not just the U.S. whose help is being refused - there are many relief organizations standing by waiting for approval to enter the country. the scale of devastation is unbelievable - not anything this bad since 1991.
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>I am surprised that you focus not on the devastation and that country refusing aid, but rather on any hidden agenda of those willing to offer it. Is everyone there standing on the corner stating 'Don't help me, you might have a hidden agenda - I'd rather suffer and starve?'
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>>>The sad thing is that the people will suffer all the more for it.
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>>And waiting for the generals to first say "yes we suck and we are the monsters" (as the current campaign keeps harping on) won't get them to open the borders any sooner. Also, any attempts to use these dire times to stir an uprising or anything of the kind will go down in history as lame duck's attempt to go down in history. It's distasteful to keep trying to score political points in such times - and I keep hearing such overtones and tones and undertones in pretty much any sentence I hear in the news, including BBC.