No Le Scaramocuce, I was more specifically aiming at our flag waving.

I don't think it's nonsense to suggest that the powers do not have mostives beyond saving lives, as you perhaps agree on with "Anyway, could the UK pretty well refuse to lend a hand?"

Whatever, the point we all agree on is that it is fantastic that there has been co-operation and lives have been saved. Now if we could just generate the same degree of effort (and I'm guilty too - don't dontate as much as perhaps I could...) to less prestigious crisis like the starving in the world, we may one day have a human race to be proud of.