Again SRS, your comments seem overly defensive. CarolC seems to have been the only person to have caught the drift of the thread I started here.

NicoleC, I presume you mean the California Earthquake thread, which mentions the Iran earthquake, but isn't discussing it.

It is odd. Reuters isn't reporting that the US is among those offering humanitarian assistance either--just Russian, Germany & the UN. Only the BBC is reporting that the US has offered assistance.

The point I'm making, for the benefit of those who think I'm trying to make this out to be a Mudcat thing, is that it is unimaginable that this many deaths in an earthquake in Europe or NA would be viewed as casually as this one is--that does say to me that in our societies in Europe and North American, particularly in the US, that those Arab lives are pretty meaningless to us, and that our humantitarian aid to the region is hinged upon a country's political allegiances, not on humanitarian need.