...Hey radar!...I love when guys like you are in denial.
Maybe you should stick to reading only comic books.

How badly hit where Oman and Yemen? Any airfields damaged?

RadarPeter
Why would Gulf News, the most prominent daily in Dubai,lie about the housemaid story? If you read the local newpapers with an open mind you find plenty of horrific stories which would warrant a public outcry in any civilised country (i.e. workers not paid for months, housemaid abused).

Hi nixisfix, never did I say that the Gulf News was lying about the story of the maid. What I am saying is that you should not believe everything you read in the paper and furthermore you should not use the media as your sole source of research.

To reiterate, if you are concerned about a topic do yourself the justice of researching the topic properly. To accuse the Middle East of being hyprocites is silly. I suppose the next headline somewhere in the West is of how honest the politicians are?

I do not intend getting into a slanging match about politics as there are never any winners. What I will finish with is that we need to consider that many countries are all putting in an effort based on technical, financial and people resources, to now say who is better than who and comparing resources is childish. We should all be doing what we can to make things better. The effort put into this thread would have been better utilised in providing aid to the victims of the disaster.

From Piers Akerman’s ahe ‘Sunday Telegraph (see post on page 3):So clearly does he see ‘things’ that he’s given the Australian and American military a March deadline to be out of the country and his military is demanding that they accompany any aid shipment that goes out into the countryside.

As someone else said in an earlier post, we’ll know when ‘things’ are back to normal when Dr Mahatiar from Malaysia leads the chorus of Third World nations bad-mouthing the Americans and their South East Asian ‘deputy sheriff’ Australia. I fear we won’t have to wait too long to hear the first mutterings.