Reply #94: I understand your point and I believe that those teams are

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doing a good job. But as you point out, no matter how good any one group is, they will run out of supplies at some point. I am not suggesting that the teams who are on the ground not continue with their work. But 200 flights a day, most by the U.S. military are not bringing in teams, like Doctors Without Borders, or other groups whose expertise is in providing food and medical care and are equipped to do so. I'm saying as is apparently everyone else, that some of those flights could wait so that the more urgently required orgs can be accommodated.

As for politics, sorry, accusing these groups of politics is just wrong. Many of them are people who have dedicated and risked their lives to help people in disaster areas. They have every right to be frustrated that ONE COUNTRY is preventing from getting to the people who need them. If anyone is playing politics it looks to be the U.S. right now, attempting to control everything. It is coming across as arrogance and we have enough of an image problem around the world without turning this disaster into another reason for people to be angry at the U.S.

It's simple, work with other people for a change. We are not the rulers of the world, much as many Americans seem to think so, nor the only country that is capable of understanding and providing services in a situation like this. All delays mean loss of life. That is what matters.

Spanish teams, Venezuelans, Cubans and Chileans all have been there since day one. If the U.S. had arrived first, none of those teams would have been able to save the lives they saved. Fortunately they got there before the U.S.