Javan earthquake

So Indonesia suffers a 2nd major natural disaster just 2 and half years after the tsumani. At the moment the Indonesian government is claiming that over 4000 are dead, but that number is sure to rise as they always do in such situations.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5023874.stm

Of course the international community should act quickly to help Indonesia, but no doubt the international response will be as cold as it was in Pakistan last year. Rhetoric is all well and good, but what is needed in such situations is cash and a co-ordinated resonse.

I wonder when Mr's Bush and Blair will realise that people in fragile and emerging democracies, and also here at home in the UK, would have much more respect for them if they were to spend the same amount of money resolving natural disasters like this, that they have spent on their imperialistic disaster in Iraq.