Normally in the time of national disasters, countries will forego political issues and accept disaster relief. Look at Iran in 2003. We didn't even have any political relationship with them and they accepted both money, supplies, and forces to distribute them. I don't recall that the U.S. took over the country in the process...


>>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.