What if the World Was Like the U.S.?

Let's see:

A powerful earthquake centered in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan this morning sent tremors across South Asia, flattening villages in remote northern Pakistan, killing hundreds across both sides of disputed Kashmir and shaking houses and high-rises from Kabul, to the west, to this Indian capital, to the east.

Pakistan has not yet sent any relief to the affected areas because it the local governments did not request assistance from the government. Furthermore there have been reports of angry, poor, darker skinned people rioting.

When asked for comment, the Pakistani Defense minister said that he read in a paper that Pakistan "dodged a bullet," so there was no need to worry. However, he also said that he was looking forward to "rebuilding his nephew's house, where he plans to sit and relax on the porch."

Now that I think about it, I think a third world country's government would have responded better to a natural disaster than ours did.

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